To be honest fella we got chatting to a geologist guy who did a lot of field work around Banff and Kananaskis and he’d never seen a bear in 20yrs in the back country.
The parks advise you to just make noise as you travel, talking and such and when coming to a bend in the trail you cant see round make a whooping/loud noise so you don’t startle a bear gives them a chance to move out of the way.Everyone seemed to have a small bell clipped on somewhere so it tinkles away so the bears either know to get out the way or its meal time!
There’s some clips on youtube of a guy who goes solo for days on end in the Canada backcountry ‘martyupnorth’ might be handy for research ?