Michael,
You cannot put scrollbars on a canvas, so the canvas cannot be scrolled independently of its parent panel. But you still have a workaround. All you have to do is put the canvas on a child panel, and this child panel can have the scrollbars. You can size the child panel so that the canvas fits snuggly inside it. You can also hide its frame and titlebar so that no one can tell that it even exists.
Let me know if this is unclear. I can probably zip up a little demo.
Luis
NI