A cold and frosty afternoon walk westward along a windy Queens Quay to Harbourfront with a detour to Union Station to warm up. It was below zero, but only single digits so it can’t be that bad, right?
below: New construction, Lower Jarvis at Queens Quay East, beside Sugar Beach
below: Redpath Sugar on Queens Quay East
below: “Whaling Wall”, 1997, on the side of Redpath Sugar, one in a series of 100 murals painted by Robert Wyland that feature whales and other seal life.
below: Looking north up Yonge Street from Queens Quay
below: Ice just beginning to form on the water. Although it’s almost February, Lake Ontario remains unfrozen – at least up until last Thursday when this picture was taken. That was also the coldest day of the winter that we’ve had so far. A lot more of the harbour, and lake, should be frozen now!
below: Looking north up Bay Street from Queens Quay
below: Lakeshore & Gardiner at Bay Street.
below: There’s a new walkway over Bay Street that joins Union Station and the GO bus terminal.
below: Looking south from the new walkway. On the right is the old postal sorting station, then Air Canada Centre, and now totally rebranded as the Scotiabank Arena.
below: It also offers new views into windows!
below: Towards the new GO Terminal. When I wandered through it was just me and two security guards.
below: The first of these that I have seen, inside the new GO bus terminal.
below: The old GO Terminal
below: It was very quiet in front of Union Station, especially subdued for late on a weekday afternoon.
below: Remembering the 2019 Raptors team.
below: York Street at Bremner, with the base of the CN Tower peaking through.
below: Looking into the lobby of a new building at 10 York Street, designed by Brad Golden & Co.
below: “Iceberg” in Canada Square, with the CN Tower in the background. This sculpture, that you can walk through, also has sound and lights. The latter would probably be better seen a little later in the day!
below: Dewit L. Petros, “Untitled (Overlapping and intertwined territories that fall from view III)”, on the south wall of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. This was part of the 2020 Contact Photography Festival.
below: “Sonic Runway” a light-art installation on the waterfront created by Warren Trezevant and Rob Jensen.
And then home to warm up again!
as I walk Toronto 
Thanks for this update on a chunk of waterfront I used to walk a lot. I love some of the sculptures, and am stunned at the size of the building rearing up next to Sugar Beach — does it live gracefully with the beach or suffocate it? Is the Redpath facility still active, receiving and processing sugar? Have you ever visited the Redpath Sugar Museum? (I tried various times, it was never open when I passed by…) Ah, the questions of an expat, kept away longer than anticipated by the virus…
The building beside Sugar Beach isn’t too bad. It’s close enough to Queens Quay (and isn’t very tall) that it doesn’t interfere too much. The trees beside the beach are growing up which helps. Redpath is very active. There wasn’t a ship unloading that day but there frequently is one docked there. I don’t think that I’ve ever been in the museum???Except maybe on a Doors Open weekend? Looking forward to walking with you whenever you get back or I get there!