Mount Shanks is a 2,838-metre (9,311-foot) mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,600 metres (5,249 ft) above the Vermilion River in 4 km (2.5 mi) and 1,340 metres (4,396 ft) above the Simpson River in 3 km (1.9 mi).

This landform's original local name was "Folding Mountain" until the mountain was renamed in 1927 by Dominion Land Survey staff in honor of their colleague, the late Thomas Shanks, Assistant Director General of Surveys of Canada.

[4][5] The mountain's toponym was officially adopted on July 31, 1927, by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

[6] Mount Shanks is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.