Lake Charles is small lake in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality between the communities of Dartmouth and Waverley. Its situated between Port Wallace in the south and Nova Scotia Highway 107 in the North, Nova Scotia Highway 118 in the west and Nova Scotia Route 318 to the east. It's the summit of Shubenacadie Canal where the level of the surface is 31 metres above sea level . Located in the Shubenacadie watershed, it ultimately feeds into the Bay of Fundy. However it also feeds into Halifax Harbour through the canal locks at Shubie Park.