Coming

Gale is spurred in his artistic journey by a figure from his past, a young woman with whom he shared a dance when he was seventeen. He never learned her name, and only remembers her hazel eyes, light brown hair, and a pale blue dress. Through his apparent reunion with this mysterious woman, whom he calls "Dawn", Gale begins working at a café and meets a new group of friends who gradually replace the people he left behind in Waterloo.

However, Gale eventually realizes that the Dawn he reunited with never existed, and that she was simply a figment of his own imagination. This discovery is a turning point in his character development, and leads to a series of events that ultimately change the course of his life in Montreal.

Tara Robles is an architect who builds Sunview Heights, a new neighborhood in a fictional Waterloo. In the timeline of The Wind at Dawn, she is an ex-girlfriend of Gale Jones who re-enters his life when they meet by chance at La Ronde. He is dating David Hawthorn, but originally believed their relationship to not be so serious. During the period of upheaval in Gale's life when Dawn first disappeared, Tara became pregnant and decided to make her relationship with David work. She married him, and together they had Solomon. After Gale and Tara are back in contact, she names him as godfather to her Solomon Hawthorn.