Mount Burgess, 2,599 m (8,527 ft), is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the President Range in the Canadian Rockies.

The Burgess Shale is a black shale fossil bed (Lagerstätte) named after nearby Burgess Pass, in which are found new and unique species, many in fact constituting entire new phyla of life, and even today some of these unique species have proven impossible to classify.

The fossils are especially valuable because they include appendages and soft parts that are rarely preserved.

At 508 million years (middle Cambrian) old, it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.

Between 1954 and 1971, Mount Burgess was featured on the back of the Canadian ten-dollar bill.