Canna is a small town in the

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Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

. It is located between the towns of Morawa and Mullewa on the Mullewa-Wubin Road. At the

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, Canna had a population of 81. Originating as a railway siding on the

Wongan Hills Wongan Hills is a range of low flat-topped hills in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of Western Australia. It is located at , in the Shire of Wongan–Ballidu. History The range was first recorded in 1836 by Surveyor General of Western Australia Jo ...

to Mullewa railway line the public works department planned to locate a station named ''Pindawa'' on the present site. The name was regarded as unsuitable due to its similarity to the existing town of

Pindar Pindar (; grc-gre, Πίνδαρος , ; la, Pindarus; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar ...

so in 1914 it was decided to use Canna instead. The townsite was gazetted in 1928. The main industry in town is

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farming with the town being a

Cooperative Bulk Handling The CBH Group (commonly known as CBH, an acronym for Co-operative Bulk Handling), is a grain growers' cooperative that handles, markets and processes grain from the wheatbelt of Western Australia. History CBH was formed on 5 April 1933, at a ...

grain receival point.

References

{{authority control Towns in Western Australia Shire of Morawa Grain receival points of Western Australia