Flin Flon
—  City  —
Flag of Flin Flon Flag
Flin Flon Location of Flin Flon in Manitoba
Coordinates: 54°46′05″N 101°51′51″W / 54.76806°N 101.86417°W / 54.76806; -101.86417Coordinates: 54°46′05″N 101°51′51″W / 54.76806°N 101.86417°W / 54.76806; -101.86417
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba, Saskatchewan
Founded	1927
Incorporated (city)	January 1, 1933
Government
• Mayor	George Fontaine
• Council	Flin Flon City Council
• MP	Niki Ashton (NDP) Rob Clarke (CPC)
• MLA	Clarence Pettersen (NDP) Doyle Vermette (NDP)
Area[1]
• Land	11.55 km2 (4.46 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (980 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	5,592
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Postal code	R8A
Area code(s)	204
Website	http://www.cityofflinflon.com/

Flin Flon (pop. 5,592 in 2011 census; 5,363 in Manitoba and 229 in Saskatchewan) is a Canadian mining city located on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within Manitoba.

History[link]

Founding[link]

Dog Sled Race (1954)

Flin Flon was founded in 1927 by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBM&S) to exploit the large copper and zinc ore resources in the region. In the 1920s, HBM&S invested in a railway, mine, smelter, and a hydroelectric power plant at Island Falls, Saskatchewan. By 1928 the rail line reached the mine.

The town grew considerably during the 1930s as farmers, who were impoverished by the Great Depression, abandoned their farms and came to work at the mines. The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1933, and in 1970, the community reached city status. The city has continued to be a mining centre with the development of several mines adding to its industrial base, although its population has been in decline. With a scenic setting and a number of nearby lakes, Flin Flon has also become a moderately popular tourist destination.

The statue of Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin

Origin of the name[link]

The town's name is taken from the lead character in a paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake where he passed into a strange underground world through a hole lined with gold. A copy of the book was allegedly found and read by prospector Tom Creighton.

When Tom Creighton discovered a high-grade exposure of copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon's mine, and the town that developed 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.

The character of "Flinty", as he is locally known, is of such importance to the identity of the city that the local Chamber of Commerce commissioned the minting of a $3.00 coin which was considered legal tender amongst locally participating retailers during the year following its issue. A statue representing Flinty was designed by cartoonist Al Capp and is one of the points of interest of the city. In 1978, the National Film Board of Canada produced the short documentary Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon about the origin of the city's name.^[2]

Geography and climate[link]

Flin Flon straddles the provincial border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city being located in Manitoba. The 2011 census reported 5,363 residents in the Manitoba portion and only 229 in the Saskatchewan section; the Manitoba portion has a land area of 13.88 km², while the Saskatchewan portion has a land area of 2.37 km². Due to the zig-zagging nature of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border, the Saskatchewan section of town lies south of the Manitoba section, not west. The city's Main Street crosses the provincial boundary just south of its intersection with Church Street; Hudson Street crosses the provincial boundary between its intersections with 5 Ave E. and Harrison Street, adopting the new name South Hudson Street at the point of crossing; an undeveloped stretch of Channing Drive briefly crosses into Saskatchewan before reentering Manitoba just west of the city's rural Channing neighbourhood.

The town of Creighton, Saskatchewan, is immediately adjacent to Flin Flon. Nearby lakes include Kipahigan Lake.

The majority of Flin Flon's surface topology is exposed Canadian Shield bedrock, hence the nickname "the city built on rock". Due to this and climatic factors, agriculture is generally not possible, although grain farming is found 130 km southeast in The Pas, Manitoba.

Flin Flon has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) that is on the borderline between humid continental and subarctic (Köppen Dfc). Flin Flon experiences a wide range in seasonal temperatures, with warm summers and very cold winters. Temperatures in January have an average low of −25 °C (−13.0 °F) and an average high of −16 °C (3.2 °F). Temperatures in July have an average high of 24 °C (75.2 °F) and an average low of 13 °C (55.4 °F).^[3]

Lake Athapapuskow, near Bakers Narrows Provincial Park and the airport; the photo was taken in late May, demonstrating that snow is possible (though unlikely) even that late in the year.

Demographics[link]

Transportation[link]

Road[link]

Flin Flon is accessed by Manitoba Provincial Trunk Highway 10 and Saskatchewan Highway 106. The city has daily Greyhound and Grey Goose bus service. The city also runs a small public bus system.^[6]

Air[link]

The city operates Flin Flon Airport (YFO), which is located southeast of the city. The airport has a single 1,524m asphalt runway, and has regular flights to and from Winnipeg through Calm Air and Bearskin Airlines.

Rail[link]

The Hudson Bay Railway operates railway freight service on its railway line between The Pas and Flin Flon.

Economy[link]

The image on the left shows pollution indicated by yellow, which were seeded by the aerosols from the copper smelter in Flin Flon. Pollution is particularly noticeable from satellites in areas where the air is otherwise clean.

Main employers[link]

The city built on rock - HBM&S stack. Utilidor in foreground carries municipal sewer and water services.

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Mining[link]

The economy of Flin Flon is primarily based on copper and zinc mining, chiefly Hudbay Minerals Co. Ltd/Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting's 777 Mine (including Callinan lenses) and Trout Lake Mine (slated for shutdown in 2012). Sphalerite concentrate is produced and then treated on-site to produce zinc, while chalcopyrite concentrate is produced and then sold for external copper production, a result of the HBM&S smelter closure in July 2010. ^[8] Although processing of any sulfide material (in this case zinc) usually emits large amounts of sulfur dioxide, the HBM&S plant uses a zinc pressure leaching process which greatly reduces emissions.^[9]

Marijuana production[link]

Flin Flon gained international notoriety in 2002 when the Government of Canada awarded a four-year contract to a Saskatoon-based company for the production of medicinal marijuana. Prairie Plant Systems, based in Saskatoon, used an inactive underground copper/zinc drift owned by the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company to produce approximately 400 kilograms of medicinal marijuana annually. The entire operation was situated several hundred metres under Flin Flon for security and climate control reasons.

Since the original stock of marijuana seeds were obtained from Royal Canadian Mounted Police drug raids, there was some lack of consistency in the early crops of medicinal marijuana. After selective use of seeds from the first crop, subsequent generations have shown to have a more consistent quality.

In 2009, Prairie Plant Systems discontinued operation at the mine due to the ending of their lease and the uncertainty regarding the pending closure of the Trout Lake mine.^[10]

Culture[link]

Sports[link]

Flin Flon is the home of the Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League and the birthplace of NHL great and Hall of Fame member Bobby Clarke. As captain of the team, he led the Philadelphia Flyers to NHL Championships in the 1970s, and was also a star on Team Canada 1972 in the Summit Series. Other NHLers hailing from Flin Flon include Ken Baird, Ken Baumgartner, Matt Davidson, Kim Davis, Dean Evason, Al Hamilton, Ted Hampson (who was the second player to ever receive the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy), Gerry Hart, Ron Hutchinson, George Konik, Ray Maluta, Dunc McCallum, Eric Nesterenko, Mel Pearson, Reid Simpson, David Struch and Ernie Wakely.

Media[link]

Newspapers & Magazines

• The Reminder - Monday, Wednesday and Friday - Flin Flon's only newspaper.
• Northroots Magazine - a bi-monthly glossy, regional publication, northroots.ca published February, April, June, August, October and December. In-flight reading on Calm Air.
• Cottage North Magazine - local interest, local stories, and local people - published by the Reminder newspaper January, March, May, July, September, and November.

Radio

• CFAR 590, format plays a mix of everything
• CBWF-FM 90.9, (CBC Radio One)
• CKSB-4-FM 99.9, (Première Chaîne)
• CIFF-FM 101.1, (NCI)

Television

CBWBT first went on the air in June 1962. The station broadcast kine recordings, sent to the transmitter from CBWT. On March 1, 1969, the province-wide microwave system replaced the kine recordings; citizens of Flin Flon have had access to live television since then.^[11]

• CBWFT-2 channel 3 (Radio-Canada)
• CBWBT channel 10 (CBC)
• CKYF-TV channel 13 (CTV)

Shaw Communications operates a community programming channel; CATV Channel 11: Shaw TV

Law and government[link]

Municipal[link]

The operations of the City of Flin Flon are administered by the city council, whose members set the policies. The city council consists of a mayor and six councillors who are elected and serve a term of four years. The current council was elected on October 27, 2010, and consists of the following members:

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Provincial[link]

Flin Flon is in the southwest corner of the Manitoba provincial electoral district of the same name, and is the only urban centre within the district. The current Member of the Legislative Assembly is NDP Clarence Pettersen, who was elected in the 2011 election.

The Saskatchewan portion of Flin Flon is in the electoral district of Cumberland. It is represented by Doyle Vermette of the NDP.

Federal[link]

Flin Flon, Manitoba, is in the federal riding of Churchill. The current Member of Parliament is NDP member Niki Ashton, who with 10,236 votes defeated Conservative Wally Daudrich (5253 votes) and Liberal Sydney Garrioch (4071 votes) in the 2011 General Election.

The Saskatchewan portion of Flin Flon is in the electoral district of Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, whose current Member of Parliament is Conservative Rob Clarke. ^[13]

See also[link]

• Flin Flon greenstone belt
• Lloydminster

References[link]

• Community Profile: Flin Flon (part), Manitoba; Statistics Canada
• Community Profile: Flin Flon (part), Saskatchewan; Statistics Canada

External links[link]

• City of Flin Flon
• Map of Flin Flon (Part), Manitoba at Statcan
• Map of Flin Flon (Part), Saskatchewan at Statcan

		Lynn Lake Pukatawagan
	Creighton		Snow Lake, Thompson
		Flin Flon    East
		Cranberry Portage The Pas

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Flin
Flin
Location within Lorraine region  Flin
Administration
Country	France
Region	Lorraine
Department	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement	Lunéville
Canton	Baccarat
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes d'entre Meurthe et Verdurette
Mayor	Jean-Paul François (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	246–317 m (807–1,040 ft) (avg. 252 m or 827 ft)
Land area1	11.64 km2 (4.49 sq mi)
Population2	374  (1999)
- Density	32 /km2 (83 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	54199/ 54122
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 48°29′54″N 6°39′20″E / 48.4983°N 6.6556°E / 48.4983; 6.6556

Flin is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

See also[link]

• Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department

v t e Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department Abaucourt Abbéville-lès-Conflans Aboncourt Affléville Affracourt Agincourt Aingeray Allain Allamont Allamps Allondrelle-la-Malmaison Amance Amenoncourt Ancerviller Anderny Andilly Angomont Anoux Ansauville Anthelupt Armaucourt Arnaville Arracourt Arraye-et-Han Art-sur-Meurthe Athienville Atton Auboué Audun-le-Roman Autrepierre Autreville-sur-Moselle Autrey Avillers Avrainville Avricourt Avril Azelot Azerailles Baccarat Badonviller Bagneux Bainville-aux-Miroirs Bainville-sur-Madon Barbas Barbonville Barisey-au-Plain Barisey-la-Côte Baslieux Les Baroches Bathelémont-lès-Bauzemont Batilly Battigny Bauzemont Bayon Bayonville-sur-Mad Bazailles Beaumont Béchamps Belleau Belleville Bénaménil Benney Bernécourt Bertrambois Bertrichamps Bettainvillers Beuveille Beuvezin Beuvillers Bey-sur-Seille Bezange-la-Grande Bezaumont Bicqueley Bienville-la-Petite Bionville Blainville-sur-l'Eau Blâmont Blémerey Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Blénod-lès-Toul Boismont Boncourt Bonviller Borville Boucq Bouillonville Bouvron Bouxières-aux-Chênes Bouxières-aux-Dames Bouxières-sous-Froidmont Bouzanville Brainville Bralleville Bratte Bréhain-la-Ville Bréménil Brémoncourt Briey Brin-sur-Seille Brouville Bruley Bruville Buissoncourt Bulligny Bures Buriville Burthecourt-aux-Chênes Ceintrey Cerville Chaligny Chambley-Bussières Champenoux Champey-sur-Moselle Champigneulles Chanteheux Chaouilley Charency-Vezin Charey Charmes-la-Côte Charmois Chaudeney-sur-Moselle Chavigny Chazelles-sur-Albe Chenevières Chenicourt Chenières Choloy-Ménillot Cirey-sur-Vezouze Clayeures Clémery Clérey-sur-Brenon Coincourt Colmey Colombey-les-Belles Conflans-en-Jarnisy Cons-la-Grandville Cosnes-et-Romain Courbesseaux Courcelles Coyviller Crantenoy Crépey Crévéchamps Crévic Crézilles Crion Croismare Crusnes Custines Cutry Damelevières Dampvitoux Deneuvre Deuxville Diarville Dieulouard Dolcourt Dombasle-sur-Meurthe Domèvre-en-Haye Domèvre-sur-Vezouze Domgermain Domjevin Dommarie-Eulmont Dommartemont Dommartin-la-Chaussée Dommartin-lès-Toul Dommartin-sous-Amance Domprix Domptail-en-l'Air Doncourt-lès-Conflans Doncourt-lès-Longuyon Drouville Écrouves Einvaux Einville-au-Jard Emberménil Épiez-sur-Chiers Éply Erbéviller-sur-Amezule Errouville Essey-et-Maizerais Essey-la-Côte Essey-lès-Nancy Étreval Eulmont Euvezin Faulx Favières Fécocourt Fenneviller Ferrières Fey-en-Haye Fillières Flainval Flavigny-sur-Moselle Fléville-devant-Nancy Fléville-Lixières Flin Flirey Fontenoy-la-Joûte Fontenoy-sur-Moselle Forcelles-Saint-Gorgon Forcelles-sous-Gugney Foug Fraimbois Fraisnes-en-Saintois Francheville Franconville Fréménil Frémonville Fresnois-la-Montagne Friauville Frolois Frouard Froville Gélacourt Gélaucourt Gellenoncourt Gémonville Gerbécourt-et-Haplemont Gerbéviller Germiny Germonville Gézoncourt Gibeaumeix Giraumont Giriviller Glonville Gogney Gondrecourt-Aix Gondreville Gondrexon Gorcy Goviller Grand-Failly Grimonviller Gripport Griscourt Grosrouvres Gugney Gye Hablainville Hagéville Haigneville Halloville Hammeville Hamonville Han-devant-Pierrepont Hannonville-Suzémont Haraucourt Harbouey Haroué Hatrize Haucourt-Moulaine Haudonville Haussonville Heillecourt Hénaménil Herbéviller Hériménil Herserange Hoéville Homécourt Houdelmont Houdemont Houdreville Housséville Hudiviller Hussigny-Godbrange Igney Jaillon Jarny Jarville-la-Malgrange Jaulny Jeandelaincourt Jeandelize Jevoncourt Jezainville Jœuf Jolivet Joppécourt Jouaville Joudreville Juvrecourt Labry Lachapelle Lagney Laître-sous-Amance Laix Lalœuf Lamath Landécourt Landremont Landres Laneuvelotte Laneuveville-aux-Bois Laneuveville-derrière-Foug Laneuveville-devant-Bayon Laneuveville-devant-Nancy Lanfroicourt Lantéfontaine Laronxe Laxou Lay-Saint-Christophe Lay-Saint-Remy Lebeuville Leintrey Lemainville Leménil-Mitry Lenoncourt Lesménils Létricourt Lexy Leyr Limey-Remenauville Lironville Liverdun Loisy Longlaville Longuyon Longwy Lorey Loromontzey Lubey Lucey Ludres Lunéville Lupcourt Magnières Maidières Mailly-sur-Seille Mairy-Mainville Maixe Maizières Malavillers Malleloy Malzéville Mamey Mance Mancieulles Mandres-aux-Quatre-Tours Mangonville Manoncourt-en-Vermois Manoncourt-en-Woëvre Manonville Manonviller Marainviller Marbache Maron Mars-la-Tour Marthemont Martincourt Mattexey Maxéville Mazerulles Méhoncourt Ménil-la-Tour Mercy-le-Bas Mercy-le-Haut Méréville Merviller Messein Mexy Mignéville Millery Minorville Moineville Moivrons Moncel-lès-Lunéville Moncel-sur-Seille Mont-Bonvillers Montauville Montenoy Montigny Montigny-sur-Chiers Mont-l'Étroit Mont-le-Vignoble Montreux Mont-Saint-Martin Mont-sur-Meurthe Morfontaine Moriviller Morville-sur-Seille Mouacourt Mouaville Mousson Moutiers Moutrot Moyen Murville Nancy Neufmaisons Neuves-Maisons Neuviller-lès-Badonviller Neuviller-sur-Moselle Nomeny Nonhigny Norroy-le-Sec Norroy-lès-Pont-à-Mousson Noviant-aux-Prés Ochey Ogéviller Ognéville Olley Omelmont Onville Ormes-et-Ville Othe Ozerailles Pagney-derrière-Barine Pagny-sur-Moselle Pannes Parey-Saint-Césaire Parroy Parux Petit-Failly Petitmont Pettonville Pexonne Phlin Piennes Pierre-la-Treiche Pierre-Percée Pierrepont Pierreville Pompey Pont-à-Mousson Pont-Saint-Vincent Port-sur-Seille Praye Prény Preutin-Higny Pulligny Pulney Pulnoy Puxe Puxieux Quevilloncourt Raon-lès-Leau Raucourt Raville-sur-Sânon Réchicourt-la-Petite Réclonville Rehainviller Reherrey Réhon Reillon Rembercourt-sur-Mad Remenoville Réméréville Remoncourt Repaix Richardménil Rogéville Romain Rosières-aux-Salines Rosières-en-Haye Rouves Roville-devant-Bayon Royaumeix Rozelieures Saffais Saint-Ail Saint-Baussant Saint-Boingt Saint-Clément Sainte-Geneviève Sainte-Pôle Saint-Firmin Saint-Germain Saint-Jean-lès-Longuyon Saint-Julien-lès-Gorze Saint-Marcel Saint-Mard Saint-Martin Saint-Maurice-aux-Forges Saint-Max Saint-Nicolas-de-Port Saint-Pancré Saint-Remimont Saint-Rémy-aux-Bois Saint-Sauveur Saint-Supplet Saizerais Sancy Sanzey Saulnes Saulxerotte Saulxures-lès-Nancy Saulxures-lès-Vannes Saxon-Sion Seichamps Seicheprey Selaincourt Seranville Serres Serrouville Sexey-aux-Forges Sexey-les-Bois Sionviller Sivry Sommerviller Sornéville Sponville Tanconville Tantonville Tellancourt Thélod They-sous-Vaudemont Thézey-Saint-Martin Thiaucourt-Regniéville Thiaville-sur-Meurthe Thiébauménil Thil Thorey-Lyautey Thuilley-aux-Groseilles Thumeréville Tiercelet Tomblaine Tonnoy Toul Tramont-Émy Tramont-Lassus Tramont-Saint-André Tremblecourt Trieux Trondes Tronville Tucquegnieux Ugny Uruffe Vacqueville Val-et-Châtillon Valhey Valleroy Vallois Vandelainville Vandeléville Vandières Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy Vannes-le-Châtel Varangéville Vathiménil Vaucourt Vaudémont Vaudeville Vaudigny Vaxainville Vého Velaine-en-Haye Velaine-sous-Amance Velle-sur-Moselle Veney Vennezey Verdenal Vézelise Viéville-en-Haye Vigneulles Vilcey-sur-Trey Villacourt Ville-au-Montois Ville-au-Val Villecey-sur-Mad Ville-en-Vermois Ville-Houdlémont Villers-en-Haye Villers-la-Chèvre Villers-la-Montagne Villers-le-Rond Villers-lès-Moivrons Villers-lès-Nancy Villers-sous-Prény Villerupt Ville-sur-Yron Villette Villey-le-Sec Villey-Saint-Étienne Virecourt Viterne Vitrey Vitrimont Vittonville Viviers-sur-Chiers Voinémont Vroncourt Waville Xammes Xermaménil Xeuilley Xirocourt Xivry-Circourt Xonville Xousse Xures

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Tim Hus performing on Stephen Avenue Mall in Calgary, Alberta

Tim Hus (born in Nelson, British Columbia) is a Canadian country/folk singer, based out of Calgary, Alberta.

Tim Hus and his Travelin' Band, which includes bull fiddler Riley Tubbs and lead string man Peterbilt Pete Christian, and occasionally Pat Phillips on drums, have toured from coast to coast performing their true Canadian music. His music is coined as "Canadiana Cowboy Music" and tells tales of the Historic West and those who formed it. Tim has shared the stage with many other great talents such as Canadian legend Stompin' Tom Connors, Ian Tyson and Gary Fjellgaard and worked with Corb Lund on the song "Hurtin' Albertan".

He has worked as a carpenter’s helper, framer, warehouse hand, forklift driver, van driver, treeplanter, brewery worker, beer truck driver, fruit picker, fisherman, pine cone picker, sawhand, cabinet maker, well driller, painter, courier, assembly line worker, salmon farmer, furniture mover, labourer, and a maintenance man.

Discography[link]

• Songs of West Canada (2002)
• Alberta Crude (2004)
• Huskies and Husqvarnas (2006)
• Bush Pilot Buckaroo (2008)
• Hockeytown (2010)

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tim Hus

• Artist website
• Feniak, Jenny (4 August 2007). "Tim Hus a Canadiana cowboy". Jam!. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/H/Hus_Tim/2007/08/04/4393477.html. Retrieved 2008-08-05. 
• North, Peter (5 June 2008). "Cowboy troubadour Tim Hus riding high". Edmonton Journal. http://www.canada.com/cityguides/edmonton/story.html?id=be8d52b3-465f-4f3d-8c54-76f623cc030d. Retrieved 2008-08-05. 

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