[1] According to Gloria MacKenzie and Marcia Brown of Beaverhouse First Nation band office, the name is derived from the Chamminis, which translates into English as the "place of healing or healers.

[2]" Mount Cheminis is an isolated hill of hard resistant caprock that rises abruptly from the surrounding relatively flat land which has been eroded away.

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] 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.

[1] From 1925 to 1927, Mount Cheminis marked the end of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway due to the refusal of the Quebec government to allow expansion into their territory.