Flin Flon
Lest we forget, today is apparently Canada Day.
Flin Flon is a mining city on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and I want to go to there. Their newspaper is only published three days a week. It’s called The Reminder.
The town’s name is taken from the lead character in a paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. A prospector named Tom Creighton found the book in the wilderness. The story is about a man named Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, who piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake. Upon passing through a hole lined with gold, he found a strange underground world.
When Tom Creighton discovered a rich vein of almost pure copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon’s mine. The town that sprang up around the mine adopted the name. Flin Flon shares with Tarzana, California, the distinction of being named after a character in a science fiction novel.
Now go smear some poutine all over your face.
There’s a band called Flin Flon, too. I heard of them a couple of years ago, and thus learned all this information about the town back then.
You’re a Flintabboty Flonatin.
