# Mount Cheminis > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mount_Cheminis > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mount_Cheminis.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cheminis > Source revision: 1355820333 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Mount Cheminis** (also known as **Mont Chaudron**, and **Sugar-Loaf Mountain**) is an [inselberg/monadnock](/source/Inselberg) located in [Quebec, Canada](/source/Quebec,_Canada), near the Ontario border. It is one of the highest peaks in the [Abitibi-Témiscamingue](/source/Abitibi-T%C3%A9miscamingue) region, a tourist attraction and a place that has spiritual significance for Indigenous peoples. ## Nomenclature Mount Cheminis is also known as Mont Chaudron, and Sugar-Loaf Mountain.[1] According to Gloria MacKenzie and Marcia Brown of [Beaverhouse First Nation](/source/Beaverhouse_First_Nation) band office, the name is derived from the *Chamminis*, which translates into English as the "place of healing or healers.[2]" ## Geology and location Mount Cheminis is an isolated hill of hard resistant caprock that rises abruptly from the surrounding relatively flat land which has been eroded away.[1] It was created in the [most recent ice age](/source/Last_Glacial_Period). It is situated at the point of V-sharped lines of geological ridges, which are understood to have diverted the retreating ice sheet east and west.[1] The features were formed as part of the same glaciological movements that create the *Collines kékéko* (English: Kékéko Hills), although the physical appearance between the two features is notably different.[3] It is one of the highest peaks in the [Abitibi-Témiscamingue](/source/Abitibi-T%C3%A9miscamingue) region.[3] Mount Cheminis is located in Quebec between [Lake Temiskaming](/source/Lake_Timiskaming) and [Lake Abitibi](/source/Lake_Abitibi) close to the border of Ontario.[1] It is close to Kearns, Ontario (also known as [McGarry](/source/McGarry,_Ontario)), [Kap-Kig-Iwan Provincial Park](/source/Kap-Kig-Iwan_Provincial_Park), and also the [Timiskaming District](/source/Timiskaming_District) near [Ontario Highway 66](/source/Ontario_Highway_66)[1][4] and [Quebec Route 117](/source/Quebec_Route_117).[3] It was described in 2019 as "one of the most striking landscape features in all of Northern Ontario".[5] ## Significance to Indigenous peoples Mount Cheminis is used by [Indigenous peoples of Canada](/source/Indigenous_peoples_in_Canada) for [ceremony](/source/Ceremony).[5][4] Dr. Jonathan Pitt of [Nipissing University's](/source/Nipissing_University) Schulich School of Education Aboriginal Education Programs said in 2021 that "Rock formations like Mount Cheminis are important to Indigenous spirituality."[1] ## Significance in tourism Mount Cheminis provides panoramic views that attract tourists, although a 1984 report from Collège de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue noted rotting stairs and a lack of maintenance on and around the hill.[3] ## In human history Canadian geologist [Robert Bell](/source/Robert_Bell_(Canadian_geologist)) wrote about Mount Cheminis after he surveyed [Lake Temiskaming](/source/Lake_Timiskaming) in 1887.[1] From 1925 to 1927, Mount Cheminis marked the end of the [Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway](/source/Temiskaming_%26_Northern_Ontario_Railway) due to the refusal of the Quebec government to allow expansion into their territory.[2] From 1926 until 1946 it was the location of a post office.[2] A mutilated human body was found at the top of Mount Cheminis in 1955.[1][6] In 2019, 17-year-old hiker Brennan Goulding, died as he fell while climbing Mount Cheminis.[1][7] ## References 1. Steer, Bill (17 Feb 2021). ["Explore a towering monadnock with Back Roads Bill"](https://www.elliotlaketoday.com/local-news/explore-a-towering-monadnock-with-back-roads-bill-3435183). *ElliotLakeToday.com*. Retrieved 2022-04-26. 1. Buell, Richard (April 2006). ["Once upon a Cheminis"](https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ontarioabandonedplaces.com%2Fcheminis%2Fcheminis.asp#federation=archive.wikiwix.com). *[HighGrader](/source/HighGrader)*. Archived from [the original](https://www.HighGrader.com) on 1 January 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2022. 1. Audet, Sonia, Blais Normand, Lavoie Michelle, L'Heureux Stéphane, Morin Rémi, and Prévost Louise, [Sites Géologiques Touristiques en Abitibi-Témiscamingue](https://depositum.uqat.ca/id/eprint/434/1/special10e.pdf), September 1984, l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue College, Department of History and Geography (in French), p. 32. 1. Dénommé-Welch, Spy; Becker, Jean; Garcia Vega, Cecilia (2 March 2022). "Moving Toward Land-Based Sound Archiving and Composition: Reflecting on Field Research From the Project Sonic Coordinates: Decolonizing Through Land-Based Composition". *Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals*. **18** (1): 72–83. [doi:10.1177/15501906211072917](https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906211072917). [ISSN 1550-1906](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1550-1906) 1. Steer, Bill (9 March 2019). ["Lonely Mount Cheminis a spiritual rock"](https://nugget.ca/news/local-news/lonely-mount-cheminis-a-spiritual-rock). *[North Bay Nugget](/source/North_Bay_Nugget)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210123111227/https://nugget.ca/news/local-news/lonely-mount-cheminis-a-spiritual-rock) 2021-01-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2022-04-26. 1. ["Police to Bring Skeleton to City for Examination"](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100869916/police-to-bring-skeleton-to-city-for-exa/). *The Gazette*. 12 Jul 1955. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2022. 1. ["'Everybody loved him': parents remember Brennan Goulding"](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/brennan-goulding-remembered-1.5223696). *CBC*. 25 July 2019. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mount Cheminis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cheminis) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Cheminis?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.