Flin Flon means different things to different people.
Here are some of the many descriptions of the community that do or have appeared online:
“Flin Flon is a thriving mining community and vacationer’s destination nestled in the middle of nature’s magnificence.”
– City of Flin Flon website
“Flin Flon is the the best place in the world for love.”
– Interracial datingcentral.com, a dating website
“Flin Flon is the only city in the world to locate their sewage/water lines above ground. This is necessary in some areas of the city because of the masses of near impenetrable bedrock. Instead of burying the pipes, they are surrounded by a wooden casing and run above ground to create a unique snake-like appearance.”
– Tourism North Manitoba website
“Flin Flon is the best place to race and ski.”
– Entry on the skifasterflinty blog
“Flin Flon is known as the ‘city built on rock’ and sits on the border between the province of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.”
– Owner Direct Vacation rentals website
“Flin Flon is surrounded by more than 50 kilometres of nicely groomed, scenic classic and skating cross-country ski trails.”
– Travel Manitoba website
“Flin Flon is so small it defies the three-M principle that characterizes most other North American communities: It has neither mall, movie theatre nor McDonald’s. Its people are content to fish trout and pickerel, launch aspiring Bobby Clarkes on their frozen ponds and, Mayor [Dennis] Ballard says with a laugh, party.”
– The Globe and Mail (in an obviously outdated article)
“Flin Flon is a wonderful place to be able to raise children and watch them grow up in a community.”
– an entry on Canadian Geographic magazine’s website
“Flin Flon is a great city and I am happy that I was born there.” – entry in an online guest book, written by Mikey Grundmann
“Flin Flon is very proud of its hockey heritage.”
– Hockey Canada website
“Flin Flon is situated in Manitoba, [but] the area’s most productive underground mine lies largely in Saskatchewan.”
– Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online
“Flin Flon is as interesting as the origin of its name.”
– Medhunters.com, a recruitment site for those in the health profession
“All this gives you a sense of hockey pride that living and playing in Flin Flon is all about.”
– Hockey Canada website
“Flin Flon is often cited as the only town in the world that takes its name from a science fiction character.”
– Mult-sclerosis.org
“Flin Flon is the gateway to Northern Manitoba’s tourism attractions and the entrance to the Grass River Corridor.”
– the Online Highways website, which provides information about cities and attractions across North America
