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I think the furthest north you can drive is probably Whitehorse in Yukon [EDIT: not BC] on the Pan-American Highway. But presumably you were looking at the eastern end of Canada.

[ADDED: As someone else noted, you can keep going north of Whitehorse with the Pan-American Highway eventually crossing the border with Alaska or the Dempsey Highway.]

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You can drive a further 1200km+ road distance north of Whitehorse, Yukon on the Dempster Highway to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories.

End of the road appears to be just north of town: https://goo.gl/maps/shD9UoxTtK42

Western Canada is big. If you drive from Inuvik to San Diego over 60% of the entire road distance is within Canada.

They're actually building a road north out of Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk, which will take you to the Arctic Ocean:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/driving-to-the-top-of-the-...

I didn't realise that road was so nearly finished. Should be open by end of this year.

That's 3750 km (2400 miles) by road from Vancouver BC to the Arctic Ocean. Longer than Melbourne to Perth across Australia.

That's a beautiful drive. I passed through on my way to Alaska a few years ago. It had some of my favorite stops ever...sometimes just stopping and parking the RV at a pull off even led to gorgeous scenery. One of my favorite hot springs (Liard) is on that route. So many bears and moose and other critters, too.

Whitehorse is in the Yukon, not BC. And you can keep going up past Whitehorse on the Alaska highway

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