Rising above the provincial line between Quebec and Ontario, and also Ontario Northland’s Kirkland Lake Subdivision, stands the 1729’ Mont Chaudron (or Mount Cheminis).
Formed in the most recent ice age, Mount Cheminis was used as a home for the Indigenous, their spiritual reverence, and even in the mid 1920’s, marked the end of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway, due to the refusal of the Quebec government to allow expansion into their territory.
While no longer used by the Indigenous as a location for meditation or fasting, it is now home to a series of hiking trails, or in my case, a dominant piece of the scene that also includes Ontario Northland train number 211, crossing into Quebec for interchange with Canadian National at Rouyn-Noranda.
