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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vo!. 60 #2
pretty good idea as to what it would have
been like for her growing up in Flin Flon
during it’s earlier years. My grandmother
had come from an average Canadian fami-
ly, so a lot of the things that she had to go
through in her daily life could easily reflect
most people of that time.
Although one thing that I thought was
really interesting was the origin of the
name Flin Flon. It’s the only city in the
world that’s named after a science fiction
character. However, I’m not really sure if
the story about how they found the book
in the first place is true or not, but it is very
interesting. Something else I read on the
official Flin Flon city website was that in an
old diary belonging to a radio operator it
was stated that they were only going to call
the city Flin Flon until they heard from the
Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. But the
company never got back to them so the
name stayed.
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