When you can…..learn that the Alaskan Highway or ALCAN was 1,680 miles from Dawson Creek, BC to Delta Junction, Alaska. Improvements have shortened the highway to 1,422 miles. The Alaskan highway is really the highway to Alaska through Canada and in 1942 it was built in a bit over 8 months. Canada supplied the land for the highway and the USA paid to construct the Alaskan Highway.The agreement between Canada and the USA was that the Canadian  portion of the highway would be turned over to Canada six months after the end of the war, April 1, 1946. The highway was constructed through Canada for the purpose of connecting Alaska to the lower 48 during WWII. It is quite interesting to learn this part of history and would be worth looking it up on the net!