Its location is on Canoe Lake approximately thirty miles west of Beauval, within the ancient hunting grounds of the Woodland Cree.

In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 912 living in 250 of its 273 total private dwellings.

[6] Bordering Canoe Narrows to the east is the village of Jans Bay with a population of 187.

Bordering Canoe Narrows to the west is the village of Cole Bay with a population of 230.

The registered population of the Canoe Lake Cree First Nation was 2,515 in October 2018.