“Still he stayed in the sunshine. The city was noisy and good-humoured . The people in the streets he decided had open minds… The people of his city were happy-go-lucky, unpretentious and often unambitious”

“Neil McKay loved his city for its adolescence, its precocity, its humanity, its cheek..”

Nine O’Clock Gun. A Novel of Vancouver. Roland Wild (first published 1952)