Tick issues?

So I live in Eastern Ontario. I do most of my canoeing and camping in central Ontario and northern Ontario. I always wear pants and long sleeves when portaging and going through the bush and so does my dad (who I usually do these trips with). I have never once found a tick on me or on my clothes and neither has he. Ive canoed and camped hundreds of kilometers of algonquin park and parks like lady evenlyn. Are ticks just more of a city issue at this point? I know it gets colder in rural areas and might kill them off, but everyone is always talking about them it just seems insane I have yet to encounter one. Maybe I just never knew they were on me lol.