The mountains were first. They are the monuments of the indigenous past, the rocks in the surf of the multi-ethnic state of Canada. And they form the identification features of a whole, basically still young, state into the future. Whether on the steep slopes of the Rocky Mountains, on the wide plains of the Great Plains, along the banks of the Great Lakes, through the hilly countryside of the East. Canada’s natural landscape, in its wildness and beauty, forms the foundation for a unique character.