How to identify shapes in Canvas?

If I define a canvas and draw few shapes onto it, then how can I pinpoint each of the shape or image so as to declare events and other properties on the each shape. Consider I have a Rectangle and a triangle. SO can I have some mechanism so as to define them as specific entity and can I deal with them individually. I know about KineticJS but I would like to implement this functionality on my own(For learning purpose). Can anyone pinpoint the way to do it. Or may be an algorithmic approach??

You can't use any existing functionality in the DOM for that. So you have to write it yourself. You could start by making an object model like this:

function Shape(x, y) {
  var obj = {};
  obj.x = x;
  obj.y = y;

  obj.paint = function(canvasTarget) {
  }

  return obj;
}

function Rectangle(x, y, width, height) {
  var obj = Shape(x, y);
  obj.width = width;
  obj.height = height;

  obj.paint = function(canvasTarget) {
     //paint rectangle on the canvas
  }

  return obj;
}

function Canvas(target) {
  var obj = {};
  obj.target = target
  obj.shapes = [];

  obj.paint = function() {
     //loop through shapes and call paint
  }

  obj.addShape(shape) {
     this.shapes.push(shape);
  }        
}

After making the object model you could use it to draw the shapes like this:

var cnv = new Canvas();
cnv.addShape(new Rectangle(10,10,100,100));
cnv.paint();

Then you can handle the onclick event on the canvas and determine which shape is clicked on.