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Communities Also Named Canaan ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Canaan.

Within Ontario, the name Canaan is unique.

Beyond Ontario, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in Canada and the United States. Of these 29 communities, four are located in Canada and 27 are in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Lamar County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Canaan [Lamar County].
      • Lauderdale County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Canaan [Lauderdale County].
      • Montgomery County
      • This Canaan is located in Montgomery County and lies 1,087 miles [1,749.4 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Canaan.
    • Arkansas
      • Lee County
      • This Canaan is located in Lee County and lies 1,093 miles [1,759 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Canaan.
      • Searcy County
      • This Canaan is located in Searcy County and lies 1,122 miles [1,805.7 km] to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Searcy County community of Canaan.
    • Connecticut
      • Litchfield County
      • This Canaan is located in Litchfield County and lies 255 miles [410.4 km]<3> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Litchfield County community of Canaan.
    • Florida
      • Seminole County
      • This Canaan is located in Seminole County and lies 1,194 miles [1,921.6 km]<3> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Seminole County community of Canaan.
    • Georgia
      • Morgan County
      • This Canaan is located in Morgan County and lies 925 miles [1,488.6 km]<3> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Canaan.
    • Indiana
      • Jefferson County
      • This Canaan is located in Jefferson County and lies 683 miles [1,099.2 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Canaan.
    • Kansas
      • Chase County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Canaan [Chase County].
    • Maine
      • Somerset County
      • This Canaan is located in Somerset County and lies 283 miles [455.4 km]<3> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Canaan.
    • Mississippi
      • Benton County
      • This Canaan is located in Benton County and lies 1,026 miles [1,651.2 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Canaan.
    • Missouri
      • Gasconade County
      • This Canaan is located in Gasconade County and lies 968 miles [1,557.8 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gasconade County community of Canaan.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Canaan lies 494 miles [795 km]<3> to the east.
    • New Hampshire
      • Grafton County
      • This Canaan is located in Grafton County and lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<3> to the southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grafton County community of Canaan.
    • New York
      • Columbia County
      • This Canaan is located in Columbia County and lies 229 miles [368.5 km]<3> to the south southeast.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Canaan.
    • North Carolina
      • Transylvania County
      • This Canaan is located in Transylvania County and lies 817 miles [1,314.8 km]<3> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Transylvania County community of Canaan.
    • Nova Scotia
      • We haven't found the location of this community yet.
    • Ohio
      • Wayne County
      • This Canaan is located in Wayne County and lies 456 miles [733.9 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Canaan.
    • Oregon
      • Columbia County
      • This Canaan is located in Columbia County and lies 2,262 miles [3,640.3 km]<3> to the west northwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Canaan.
    • South Carolina
      • Dorchester County
      • This Canaan is located in Dorchester County and lies 902 miles [1,451.6 km]<3> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Canaan.
      • Orangeburg County
      • This Canaan is located in Orangeburg County and lies 889 miles [1,430.7 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orangeburg County community of Canaan.
      • Spartanburg County
      • This Canaan is located in Spartanburg County and lies 808 miles [1,300.3 km] to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Canaan.
    • Tennessee
      • Maury County
      • This Canaan is located in Maury County and lies 921 miles [1,482.2 km]<3> to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Canaan.
      • Montgomery County
      • This Canaan is located in Montgomery County and lies 889 miles [1,430.7 km] to the southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Canaan.
    • Texas
      • Grayson County
      • This Canaan is located in Grayson County and lies 1,385 miles [2,228.9 km]<3> to the west southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grayson County community of Canaan.
      • Limestone County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Canaan [Limestone County].
    • Vermont
      • Essex County
      • This Canaan is located in Essex County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<3> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of Canaan.
    • West Virginia
      • Upshur County
      • This Canaan is located in Upshur County and lies 529 miles [851.3 km]<3> to the south southwest.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Upshur County community of Canaan.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Canaan ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Angers
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Angers came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angers
  • Clarence
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarence came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarence
  • Forest Park
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Park came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
  • French Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for French Hill came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Hill
  • Glenburn
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glenburn came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenburn
  • Landing
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Landing came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landing
  • Leonard
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leonard came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonard
  • Martins Corners
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Martins Corners came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Corners
  • Orleans
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orleans came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
  • Queenswood Village
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Queenswood Village came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenswood Village
  • Rockland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rockland came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rockland <5>
  • Silver Creek
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek

How Far From Canaan to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Canaan to various places of note, such as Parliament Hill.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Canaan and extending to:

  • The National Capital at Parliament Hill (Ottawa, ON) is 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Canaan to Parliament Hill, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,553 miles [8,936.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,281 miles [10,108.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,159 miles [6,693.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>

The official website for Province of Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Canaan could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong . Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Canaan, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Canaan) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Canaan. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4508, Longitude: -75.2928    
<4>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<7>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Canaan to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.163 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.542 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.045 degrees.




 

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