"Thank God I have work now. I am modeling a Lion for Vancouver's suspension bridge. I had much trouble to get the work. The engineer is from Montreal, and wanted the Lion to modeled in Montreal. But the president of the bridge committee, who is a long-standing friend of mine, and his wife a good friend of mamas, finally assigned the work to me. I would have preferred the Lions to be in bronze or stone - but it has to be cheap - so they will be done in concrete which annoys me, as I could otherwise have made both Lions from one model. However I have to content myself to get work at all." - letter from Charles Marega dated August 1938, quoted in BC Historical News 8:22-26, June 1975