Canaan is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

The town of Canaan is often referred to locally by the name of its principal settlement, Falls Village.

[2] Canaan is in northwestern Litchfield County; it is bordered to the north by the town of North Canaan, to the east by Norfolk, to the south by Cornwall, and to the west, across the Housatonic River, by Salisbury.

The name "Canaan" is derived from the Hebrew name for a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant.

[4] It was founded in 1739, eight years after the unrelated settlement (in today's Fairfield County, Connecticut) of New Canaan.

Route 126 is a local road that passes through the center of Falls Village and runs north along the Housatonic River.