Then you would not be hiking in Canada. They don't allow visitors from the USA to bring handguns into their anti-gun paradise. (except for those driving to Alaska and they put some sort of seals on them or something like that - my information may be long out of date on this)
I don’t think that is correct. In 2002 I moved my family from Alaska to Idaho. It was not possible to bring a handgun into the paradise of no-handguns Canada at that time. I did bring a lever-action .45/70 which was fine at that time as long as I declared it at both borders. Not even sure if that would work now.