The people in western Canada have managed to bring together almost everything that is important to them: sailing and skiing in the same season, skyscraper wealth in the multicultural metropolis of Vancouver, in Edmonton or Calgary, and campfire romance in one of the countless wilderness villages – or best of all, everything at once. Where nature abounds, there is even room for legends of mermaids and forest people – and certainly for the mysterious mythology of the Haida Indians, in which the raven is the creator of the world. Helge Sobik has met Indigenous people, listened to their secrets, explored with the urban Indigenous community of Vancouver, and encountered the most famous pop-art artist of the West Coast metropolis as well as a food designer from Chinatown. He has observed closely and reports with a keen eye for detail from the places where Canada is at its most beautiful.