So today I was wandering through Dundas Square with a good friend of mine who wanted to buy some handmade jewellery from the merchants there. She looked through kiosk after kiosk and managed to find a few things. The whole experience was really nice...talking with the merchants, watching images that passed by on the screens above, listening to music and the sound of water pouring onto granite. The one thing that struck me most was the announcement that this was the last day for the Dundas Square artisan market. I wasn't upset that this one particular event was going to be over but rather that another winter is fastly approaching...which means that Dundas Square will eventually be covered in snow. What will Dundas Square become during the winter? This will be the first winter that the somewhat completed square faces the bitter season. Will it just be a baren space, waiting quietly for summer to return? The patio above Olympic Spirit looked so appealing from down below, like a cozy oasis high in the sky...a perfect place to enjoy a drink and a gorgeous view i bet...hmmmm...am i really ready for another winter? NOOO! I think this is the virtue that is Toronto living...we must succomb to the seasons and realize that the things we love outdoors will eventually dissipate...but hopefully return again. Dundas Square is really growing on me and I am upset that I will soon be forced to change my weekly routine of reading the paper and drinking a tasty black coffee on one of those concrete benches there. Has anyone else used the square this summer and is wondering how things will change once the bitter temperatures take over?

So today I was wandering through Dundas Square with a good friend of mine who wanted to buy some handmade jewellery from the merchants there. She looked through kiosk after kiosk and managed to find a few things. The whole experience was really nice...talking with the merchants, watching images that passed by on the screens above, listening to music and the sound of water pouring onto granite. The one thing that struck me most was the announcement that this was the last day for the Dundas Square artisan market. I wasn't upset that this one particular event was going to be over but rather that another winter is fastly approaching...which means that Dundas Square will eventually be covered in snow. What will Dundas Square become during the winter? This will be the first winter that the somewhat completed square faces the bitter season. Will it just be a baren space, waiting quietly for summer to return? The patio above Olympic Spirit looked so appealing from down below, like a cozy oasis high in the sky...a perfect place to enjoy a drink and a gorgeous view i bet...hmmmm...am i really ready for another winter? NOOO! I think this is the virtue that is Toronto living...we must succomb to the seasons and realize that the things we love outdoors will eventually dissipate...but hopefully return again. Dundas Square is really growing on me and I am upset that I will soon be forced to change my weekly routine of reading the paper and drinking a tasty black coffee on one of those concrete benches there. Has anyone else used the square this summer and is wondering how things will change once the bitter temperatures take over?


It'll still be used.

^ ya
of course there gonna still use it; there is something called a shovel, u use it when u want to uncover something that is covered with snow = problem solved
There will probably be a concert there for new years and other out door events in the winter\

Canadians don't mind the fall weather too much. It will still be really busy for a few months yet.

I don't think it will really completely die down in Winter. I've seen large amount of people on winter nights at 2 AM on Yonge St., so unless something has profoundly changed, people will utilize it.

I visited the new H&M flagship today at 12pm, the grand opening. OMG it was CRAZYNESS. There were men in black suits and clipboards at the front doors who told us we had to be on the list to enter through those specific doors. HUH? Was this a nightclub? By the time my friend and I got in it we could hardly get up the elevators (the store is 3 floors), we were packed sardines. A Dj was mixing on the 2nd floor. The excitement could definately be felt in the environment. Its a gorgeous store and people were lined up to go inside around the corner on Dundas St.
What a great addition to the square...it should definately increase energy and pedestrian numbers in the area. :)

Canadians don't mind the fall weather too much. It will still be really busy for a few months yet.

This Canadian loves it. Favourite time of the year!

I'm not so good at anything really between November and March. Never been much of a fan of cold weather.

That said, Toronto is pretty cool because once you are downtown you have such a large area of connected structures that you can walk all day and never step outside. Path has some real advantages.

Wasn't Dundas Square already completed before last winter?

I'm not so good at anything really between November and March. Never been much of a fan of cold weather.

That said, Toronto is pretty cool because once you are downtown you have such a large area of connected structures that you can walk all day and never step outside. Path has some real advantages.

I guess that depends on what your definition of cold weather is. I find it usually doesn't start to get really cold until maybe the end of December...then you have January and February as those brutally cold months.

People usually consider summer over once September rolls around, but it's usually pretty hot through September...October and November have that cool weather in the 5-12 range that's great...absolutely love it.

Even winter is alright, but I get sick of it pretty fast. February is the worst.

Dundas Square opened at the end of 2002. The first big winter event I remember there was the big anti-George Bush war rally in February 2003.

Holy schmokes, a 2 year bump. Nice job SD. :P

SD, why did you bump up two threads from '04 today?

^^ It wasn't him. It was Serch posting that dick pic.

Ah, my mistake then. sorry about that!