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So thats how Flin Flon got it's name

Apparently I'm not the only one dreaming about huge treasure chests deposits of gold.

This guy's dreaming about a lake lined with gold and silver.

Cool book novel I'm just starting it tonight

$STRRF Flin Flon: One Book's Unlikely Survival

The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock, a book that only survives because of a Canadian mining town on the border between Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

It’s Our Only Town Named After A Science Fiction Character

Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin was the central character in a turn-of-the-century science fiction drug store novel, The Sunless City, written by J.E. Preston-Muddock. Legend has it that a tattered copy of the paperback was found in the boreal forest in 1914 by explorer and prospector Thomas Creighton, who came to Flin Flon looking for gold like many others. In the story, Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin sets out in a homemade submarine to explore a bottomless lake and ends up journeying to the centre of the earth. On his way down, Flin Flon describes a lake lined with gold and silver. When the actual town was founded by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting, Creighton’s nickname for the settlement stuck. Since 1962

And here is that book online

The Sunless City

From the Papers and Diaries of the late Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin

"Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea."

The Lake of Mystery

The Sunless City

The Sunless City (1905)
by James Edward Preston Muddock
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The Sunless City is a dime novel written by J. E. Preston Muddock in 1905. The novel follows a prospector named Josiah Flintabbaty Flonatin who explores a bottomless lake in a submarine, and discovers a land where the norms of society are backwards. — Excerpted from The Sunless City on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Book Link here>>>>>>

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Sunless_City