Canowie is a sparsely populated farming and grazing locality in the Mid North region of South Australia in the Hundred of Anne, County of Victoria.

It is mainly sited on a relatively featureless plain, with the north-south trending Browne Hill Range to the west.

A government sponsored town was surveyed in 1865 but it failed to thrive and so virtually nothing remains of the township today.

It followed the usual South Australian layout of a grid of streets surrounded by a generous belt of parklands.

A general store operated for some years and a Canowie Post Office opened on 1 September 1867.