Soils: Sparse sandy loam

Common Tree Species: Cedar, White Birch, Oak, White Spruce, Hard Maple

Aquatic Vegetation: common cattail, common waterweed, milfoil, sweetgale, burreed, wild iris, leatherleaf

Bedrock: Sedimentary

Elevation: 241.4 m or 792 ft ±

Max. Depth: 4.3 m or 14 ft

Mean Depth: 1.4 m or 4.44 ft

Fish Species:muskellunge, white sucker, pumpkinseed, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, yellow perch, walleye

Canal Lake is the most north-western of the Kawartha Lakes