False Creek, Inlet in Vancouver, Canada.

False Creek is a short, narrow inlet in central Vancouver separating Downtown and the West End from the rest of the city, opening northwest into English Bay. Granville Island lies within it, and Science World stands at its eastern end. From east to west it is crossed by the Cambie, Granville and Burrard bridges; the photograph shows the steel truss of one bridge over the water, with moored white boats and a row of buildings along the shore.

The area served as an important resource for First Nations communities for over 8,000 years, who used it for fishing and gathering. European settlement transformed how the region was used and developed.

The inlet's name comes from George Henry Richards, who in 1856–1863 thought he was entering a creek and named it False Creek on discovering his error. Each June the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival is held on the water, and the False Creek ferries link its shores daily.

False Creek is crossed east to west by the Cambie, Granville and Burrard bridges, and the Canada Line tunnel passes beneath it just west of the Cambie Bridge, linking Olympic Village station on the south shore with Yaletown-Roundhouse on the north. Aquabus and False Creek Ferries run scheduled services to several points along the inlet, and Granville Island lies within it.

The inlet's name comes from a mistake: during his 1856–1863 hydrographic survey, George Henry Richards thought he was entering a creek and named it False Creek once he found otherwise. The Squamish village on the sandbar at its entrance was evacuated in 1913, and in 1916 that sandbar was filled to build Granville Island.