Rich your posting leaves me asking one question of my own.
Why start in Quebec. This will leave you missing our eastern coast and some beautifull scenery ?
As to the bike issue. If you want to insure and register a bike in Canada (mandatory) you must have a canadian address in the province of registration. At least this applies for all of the provinces I am aware of. It may be different in Quebec as they have a slightly different rule book than the rest of the country. You could try to contact the HU community where you intend to land and see if you can borrow an address for this purpose.
Once you own the bike the government doesn't care where or if you sell the bike so selling in Vancouver should not be a problem as long as you keep in mind that you will be selling at the end of the riding season.
Used bikes in Canada are usually a good deal as our riding season is short resulting in many low kilometer used models. Also our prices are lower than in the UK.
As for fuel it is readily available in Canada. In the rare circumstance where you will be more than 100 kilometers from a fuel station there is usually a road sign warning of the distance to the next stop.
If you decide to visit Edmonton give us a call and if we are around we usualy have a spare bed and the occasional  .
Rick
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