Download coordinates as: Canoona is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia.

The Bruce Highway forms most of the north-eastern boundary with North Coast railway line running closely beside it.

[4] The Princhester Conservation Park lies in the west of the locality and the Lake Learmouth State Forest in the east.

One of their other brothers was Walter Elliot of the East India Company and secretary to the governor of the Madras Presidency.

[9] In January 1856, after a massacre of local Aboriginal people perpetrated by Lieutenant John Murray of the Native Police at nearby Nankin Creek, some 200 Aboriginal men, women and children came to Canoona and began shouting at the employees of the Elliots.

William Thomas Elliot and his men opened fire at random upon the group which fled after a short time.

Fellow colonist, Charles Archer of Gracemere and a group of Native Police troopers later pursued these Aboriginal people toward the east and punished them further.