| Canvas Creek | |
| Name Etymology: | unknown |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada British Columbia |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in British Columbia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | British Columbia |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | British Columbia Interior |
| Subdivision Type4: | Land District |
| Subdivision Name4: | Kamloops Division Yale |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 52.3922°N -119.4094°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 2006m (6,581feet)[1] |
| Mouth: | North Thompson River |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 52.4806°N -119.2911°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 775m (2,543feet) |
| River System: | Fraser River |
Canvas Creek is a stream in Kamloops Division Yale Land District in the Interior region of British Columbia, Canada.[2] [3] It is in the Pacific Ocean drainage basin and is a right tributary of the North Thompson River.
The creek begins on an unnamed alpine slope at an altitude of and flows mostly northeast, before curving around to a northwesterly direction to reach its mouth at the North Thompson River, at an altitude of, at a point west and upstream of the confluence of that river with the Albreda River and about the same distance from British Columbia Highway 5. The North Thompson River flows via the Thompson River and the Fraser River to the Pacific Ocean. The mouth of the stream just extends into North Thompson Oxbows Manteau Provincial Park.
The name of the creek was officially catalogued on January 29, 1962, based on the name appearing on earlier maps from 1932 and 1942. The origin of the name is unknown.