I haven’t been to Canada since I found out they don’t allow me to carry. There isn’t anything there interesting enough to risk going unarmed...
Same here. Quite a few years ago, on a lark, I decided to drive up to Banff to see some northern Nature. I knew about the prohibition against handguns so I thought that they might let me take my fully-legal riot shotgun with me in the stoatmobile. No luck.
Had an interesting chat with the Canadian border agent though, who inferred that my wanting to effectively protect myself made me a violent and dangerous criminal. I turned around and drove down to the Oregon coast instead, where I had a nice time and spent a lot of money.
Obviously the Canadians are not going to let you run around with a serious firearm shooting up their residential areas, so what can you do?
For one thing you get several suitable firearms, grease them up, and pack them in suitable gun-cases or deer-hide bags, take them around to convenient areas, and then bury them just under the surface.
Provided you haven't placed them in an open area that might become developed in the future, those guns will be there forever for you to use as you need.
When game is plentiful, you go there, dig up your firearm, and use it.
Let's say you are a Meti, the deal is the same. Or, even if you're one of the older French families, you use the same trick.
The Brits themselves probably don't use this trick, and have seemed positively mystified by it. For instance, the Scottish rebellions in the early 1700s found the Scots using firearms they'd buried years before.