Canoe Lake has always been known locally as FOSTER'S LAKE. Foster family owned the farm on which the lake is located. My family owned the farm after Fosters. I have lived in Combermere for 86 years and I know.Submitted by Nels BOEHME, Combermere ON.Canoe Lake is a lake in Combermere, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is 600m long and 300m wide, and the primary outflow is an unnamed creek to Negeek Lake on the Madawaska River.There is a second Canoe Lake in Renfrew County that is also part of the Madawaska system, Canoe Lake (Highland Creek), on the Highland Creek tributary further downstream.