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Manitoba History No. 88
Manitoba
History
No. 88

Lieutenant Governor's History Award
Lieutenant
Governor's
History
Award

War Memorials in Manitoba
War
Memorials
in Manitoba

This Old Elevator
This Old
Elevator

Abandoned Manitoba
Abandoned
Manitoba

Memorable Manitobans
Memorable
Manitobans

Historic Sites of Manitoba
Historic Sites
of Manitoba

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Flin Flon Station Museum (Flin Flon)

This museum in the City of Flin Flon is based in a former railway station. A municipally-designated historic site, it contains artifacts relating to the mining history of this region.

Also on the museum grounds is a large statue of the fictional character of Flintabbatey Flonatin. Erected in 1962 on a design by cartoonist Al Capp, “Flinty” commemorates an adventurer in the 1914 novel The Sunless City by E. Preston Muddock. A copy of the book was discovered by a group of prospectors. They later found a conical hole in this vicinity that proved to contain a large amount of gold, reminiscent of a gold-studded hole through which Flonatin escaped from an underground lake. Recalling the novel, prospector Tom Creighton suggested they name the place Flin Flon.

Flin Flon Station Museum

Flin Flon Station Museum (July 2013)
Source: Alan Mason

Flintabbatey Flonatin

Flintabbatey Flonatin Statue (July 2013)
Source: Alan Mason

Site Location (lat/long): N54.77047, W101.83985
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society, including a searchable online database available to members at the MGS Manitoba Name Index (MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites, revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages.

This page was prepared by Alan Mason and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 2 December 2015

Historic Sites of Manitoba

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