I received itunes gift cards in canada as a present from a relative and i have a US account. what do i do?

im on holiday in toronto atm and had met some family who stay around four hours away. they gave me and my cousins 300 dollars worth of gift cards but we all have US itunes accounts what do we do? iTunes is refusing to let them work.

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