Flin Flon, city in western Manitoba, Canada, on Ross Lake, at the ManitobaSaskatchewan- border. Flin Flon is a commercial and smelting center for the surrounding mining, lumbering, and fishing region. Deposits of gold, copper, silver, zinc, and cadmium are in the area. Flin Flon hosts a trout festival every July. In 1915 the settlement was named for Professor Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, a character in a dime novel by J. E. Preston-Muddock. Flin Flon was incorporated as a town in 1946 and as a city in 1970. About 400 of the city's inhabitants live across the Saskatchewan border, in an area jointly administered by the Manitoba and Saskatchewan governments. Population, Manitoba side, 7,243 (1986); 6,861 (1996).
