"Flintabattey Flonatin"

Featured in Town Giants – November 6, 2008

Flin Flon is named after Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, an adventurer in “The Sunless City” , a novel by E. Preston Muddock. In 1914 a copy was found in the wilderness of Northern Manitoba by a party of prospectors. A year later, these men working claims near the present site of Flin Flon came upon a conical hole having a rich showing of gold. Tom Creighton, recalling the adventures of Flintabbatey Flonatin who escaped from the underground lake through a large gold studded hole in the earth’s crust, suggested the claims be called Flin Flon. The others agreed and that is how Flin Flon got it’s name. (Taken from the sign at the statue of Flintabbatey Flonatin)