The Story of Flin Flon's Name

Flin Flon is a mining town. Back before Flin Flon existed, a prospector was wandering around in the bush, looking for gold. Bizarrely, in the woods he found a copy of "The Sunless City" by J.E. Preston Muddock, a novel in which a character named Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin travels by submarine down a deep lake into the center of the earth, finding a sunless city filled with gold and jewels. They named the town after the character in the book. For more fun information about Flin Flon, check out the Wikipedia page.