A town by any other name might just be your typical company mining town in the remote reaches of Manitoba, Canada. But not so for the sci-fi-loving, marijuana-growing, NHL-player-breeding hamlet of Flin Flon.
The town’s minuscule yet eccentric population of 5,500 strives hard to make Flin Flon live up to its unusual name.
The tale of Flin Flon begins in 1915, when a mining prospector was scouting the Manitoba area.