[1] The Millmerran–Inglewood Road (State Route 82) passes through the locality from north to south.

[4] Much of the locality is occupied by a large portion of the Bringalily State Forest.

[2] British pastoralists arrived in the 1840s with Captain Robert Gerald Moffatt, a retired British Army officer of the 17th Regiment, forming the Canning Creek pastoral lease.

[5] In 1848, 3 Aboriginal women and one child were murdered in the area by a posse of seven white men.

[6][7] Canning Creek was opened for selection on 17 April 1877; 112 square miles (290 km2) were available.