Flin Flon (disambiguation)

Last updated April 01, 2019

Flin Flon is a city on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border in Canada.

Flin Flon is a mining city in Canada. It is located on a correction line in the boundary of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within Manitoba. Residents thus travel south into Saskatchewan, and north into Manitoba.

Flin Flon may also refer to:

Flin Flon (electoral district), provincial electoral district in Manitoba
Flin Flon greenstone belt, geology
Flin Flon Bombers, a junior hockey team
Flin Flon School Division
Flin Flon Airport
Flin Flon/Channing Water Aerodrome
Flin Flon, Teenbeat Records band featuring Mark Robinson formerly of Unrest (band), Nattles of Cold Cold Hearts, and Matt Datesman of True Love Always

Flin Flon is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and has formally existed since the provincial election of 1958.

The Flin Flon greenstone belt, also referred to as the Flin Flon – Snow Lake greenstone belt, is a Precambrian greenstone belt located in the central area of Manitoba and east-central Saskatchewan, Canada. It lies in the central portion of the Trans-Hudson orogeny and was formed by arc volcanism during the Paleoproterozoic period. The Flin Flon – Snow Lake greenstone belt is 250 km long by 75 km wide and is exposed just north of McClarty Lake. The belt is bounded by metasedimentary gneisses and metavolcanics of the Kisseynew Domain to the north and extends to the south where it is unconformably overlain by Ordovician age dolomite.

The Flin Flon Bombers are a junior ice hockey team and current member of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL), and are based in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada. Their home rink is the Whitney Forum. Radio station CFAR live broadcasts a select number of home and away games throughout the year, as well as all playoff games.

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The Flin Flon School Division maintains and operates two elementary schools and two high schools in the city of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada. The Flin Flon School Division provides educational services to the children of Flin Flon, Channing, and the residentially developed nearby areas of Big Island, Schist Lake and Bakers Narrows on Lake Athapapuskow.

Creighton is a northern town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, named after Thomas Creighton. It had a 2011 census population of 1,498 inhabitants, down 0.3% from 1,502 inhabitants in 2006. It is administrative headquarters of the Amiskosakahikan Nation reserve.

Bakers Narrows, Manitoba, is a small residential community approximately 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Flin Flon on Lake Athapapuskow. There are five subdivisions located near the lakeshore with a total of approximately 150 cottages, many of which are permanent residences.

Flin Flon Airport,, is located 8 nautical miles southeast of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada, in the community of Bakers Narrows, on the shores of Lake Athapapuskow.

Flin Flon/Channing Water Aerodrome,, is located 3 nautical miles southeast of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada on the northwest arm of Schist Lake, Manitoba. Unlike the main Flin Flon Airport, it is located within the municipal limits of Flin Flon. The airport includes an airstrip which crosses Channing Drive at an unmarked intersection close to the southeastern end of the runway.

The 2001 Royal Bank Cup is the 31st Junior "A" 2001 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.

Provincial Trunk Highway 10A is the name of four provincial primary highways located in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These highways are alternate routes of PTH 10, and each section was the original alignment of the parent highway. The four sections are located in Flin Flon, Swan River, Ethelbert, and Dauphin.

The 1957 Memorial Cup final was the 39th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Ottawa Junior Canadiens an independent team in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-seven series, held at the Whitney Forum in Flin Flon, Manitoba and at Regina Exhibition Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan, Flin Flon won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Ottawa 4 games to 3.

The NorMan Junior Hockey League (NJHL) was Junior A hockey league in Northern Manitoba, Canada from 1978 until 1985. The NJHL was a member of the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association, a part of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The winner of the NJHL was allowed to compete against the champion of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League for the Turnbull Cup and a berth into the Centennial Cup national playdowns.

The Thompson King Miners were a junior ice hockey team from Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. The King Miners were members of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League and the NorMan Junior Hockey League.

The Reminder is a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday in Flin Flon, Canada, a city located on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It is the only locally published newspaper in the area.

Clarence Pettersen was a Canadian provincial politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2011 election. He represented the electoral district of Flin Flon as a member of the Manitoba New Democratic Party caucus.