No one called it Canary Square until the restaurant decided to use the name. Did you know that the intersection of South Huntington and Perkins is called Conroy Square? Anyone who dares call it the outer edge of Hyde Square or worse yet the Gateway to Pondside is nothing more than a neighborhood boundary power lord!!!
Hey, neighborhood names come and go and the "borders" that define them shift with time. Realtors make up names and sometimes they stick. Transportation means and routes evolve and names along with them. It's fluid.

It's South Huntington Avenue, not Street.

Hyde Square. Canary Square marks a memorial to a fallen soldier, and the bar appropriated the name, and now the corner is tagged with the bar's name. Call it William A. Canary Square or Hyde Square to be respectful. I don't think we should get in the habit of naming bars after fallen heroes unless it's the familiy's establishment.

Good point Anne. There are tons of "squares" named for soldiers killed in action. The Conroy Square I mention is one of these as well.

The City of Boston determined that up to and including Canary Square (the restaurant) is considered the JP Centre/South Main Streets District. From 7/11 on up into Hyde Square are considered to be part of the Hyde/Jackson Main Streets District. "Officially," I believe CVS, Acapulco, JP Knit & Stitch and Tres Gatos, are all part of JP Centre/South and not Hyde Square. I have always understood that it changes at the curve.

I've always thought of that area as near Hyde Square but not having any specific name. If it is to be christened with one, I like Alchemist's Square: more mystery and history.

Triple D's alley.

Thank you, scott, for reviving the good old days! Long live triple d's!!!

Wow! It is so nice to see a debate about something as mundane as a location name rather than some of the more hotly-contested subjects we've seen as of late - and we're all being so civil, too!

IMHO: "Hyde Square" indicates the traffice circle where Perkins, Centre & Day Streets all meet up.

@Anne - Just a correction it's William E. Canary Square (not A.). And some additional background if you are interested -
William Emmett Canary was born in Roxbury at 21 Mechanic Street, April 21, 1896, son of Owen & Margaret (Murphy) Canary (His mother came over from Ireland and his father was born in Hyannis, MA and the son of Irish immigrants). The street he was born at is now part of Northeastern's West Village Residence Complex, the entrance from Ruggles Street on Tavern Road is about where Mechanic Street used to be. When he was drafted in World War I he was living at 562 South Street in Roslindale near the Arboretum, and working as a sole leather sorter for Tanners Cut Sole Co, 321 Summer St, Boston (and signed his name as William Emett Canary). And as the memorial says, he was killed in action at St. Mihiel, France, September 12, 1918