Main city: Canaan
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Comcast Phone Of Connecticut

Canaan, a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,081 at the 2000 census. The town of Canaan is often referred to locally by the name of its principal constituent village, Falls Village. ^source

Area code 860 is a telephone area code that covers most of Connecticut, except its southwest, which use area codes 203 and 475. Area code 959, originally announced in August 1999, will overlay area code 860 when the 860 code nears exhaustion, starting in August 2014. Effective November 14, 2009, all calls within Connecticut must be dialed with 10 digits beginning with the area code, including calls involving two numbers using the same area code. ^source