Editing Canaan, Vermont (section)

==Geography==

[[File:Connecticut River at Canaan VT.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Connecticut River]] between Canaan and [[Stewartstown, New Hampshire]]]]
Canaan is the northeasternmost town in Vermont, bordered by the [[Canadian province]] of [[Quebec]] to the north and the [[U.S. state]] of [[New Hampshire]] to the east. It is one of two towns in Vermont to share a border with both another state and Canada, the other such town being [[Alburgh (town), Vermont|Alburgh]] in the northwestern corner. Canaan has two border crossings with Quebec, each approximately 3 miles (4.8&nbsp;km) apart. The border crossings are, from west to east, [[Canaan–Hereford Road Border Crossing]], accessed by [[Vermont Route 141]] and [[Quebec Route 141]], and [[Beecher Falls–East Hereford Border Crossing]], accessed by [[Vermont Route 253]] and [[Quebec Route 253]]. Canaan is also the only town in Vermont to share a land border with New Hampshire—the town's far northeastern corner touches the southwestern corner of the town of [[Pittsburg, New Hampshire|Pittsburg]]—as the [[Connecticut River]] defines the state line from Canaan southward.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|86.6|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|85.5|sqkm|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|1.1|sqkm|order=flip}}, or 1.24%, is water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/0600000US5000911800| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Canaan town, Essex County, Vermont| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=March 31, 2016| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213131726/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/0600000US5000911800| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>