Located in the city's historic Distillery District, this year's Lowe's Toronto Christmas Market runs until Sunday, Dec.15.

The entire area is decked out for the holidays complete with lighting and décor displays, roving carolers and traditional wooden booths selling locally handcrafted goods, decorations and Christmas themed foods. Many of the booths feature items from Eastern European countries, Holland and Germany, where the tradition of Christmas markets began in the early 1400's. An added bonus is the expanded liquor license, which allows visitors to enjoy an authentic holiday beverage including mulled wine and hot rum by an outdoor fire.

Vancouver's Christmas Market is located in the heart of the city on the outdoor plaza at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. It runs from now right up until Christmas Eve at 6 p.m.  Many of the 45 vendors have come from Germany. However, the beauty of the market is that it is much more than just a craft fair. Picture strolling through romantic rows of little wooden huts decorated in pine branches and illuminated with strings of little white lights while listening to holiday music in the background. For the Vancouver market, there is an admission charge of $3 for children and adults during the week, with the fee increasing to $6 for adults on the weekends.

For a more traditional Dickensonian Christmas, head to Morrisburg, Ontario, located about an hour and a half from Kingston. Upwards of one million white lights adorn the buildings of the historic Upper Canada Village for Alight at Night, running from Dec. 6 through to Jan. 4. The surrounding grounds are looped with coloured lights, and within this illuminated nineteenth century town, where time stopped around 1867, there are sleigh rides, Victorian Christmas meals, toy train rides, and places to purchase one-of-a-kind artisanal gifts. If you want to stay over you can actually spend the night in the Village at Montgomery House.