What's a Flin Flon?! (Enjoying cottage life & mining towns in rugged northwestern Manitoba) 🇨🇦

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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @jld1636
    @jld1636 3 года назад +2

    I was born in Flin Flon and now live in Calgary.I have relatives in The Pas, Flin Flon and Prince Albert. I return every summer to Flin Flon and camp at the Flin Flon campground where the Flinty statue is. We always take in the drive-in at Big Island.. We saw Cruella this summer. ;) Thanks for the video and putting a plug in for this beautiful area.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  3 года назад +1

      You're more than welcome! I truly enjoyed the rugged beauty of the Flin Flon area - Canadian Shield country at its finest. I'm glad to have brought you back to the area - thanks for watching!

  • @BC250
    @BC250 4 года назад +1

    Nice lakeside retreat, but that's some serious KM you did on this trip!

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  4 года назад +1

      Gotta make it worth the drive! 😎 And, it was a bit of a challenge to myself to push my old Toyota to the limit (sitting at 390,000 km right now!)

  • @stephaniebilly
    @stephaniebilly 3 года назад +2

    I was born in Flin Flon Manitoba and raised in Creighton Saskatchewan

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  3 года назад +1

      Awesome! The landscapes west of Creighton on that remote highway were surreal. Definitely not what you'd expect from 'flat Saskatchewan'.

  • @lesrecettesdesidy4246
    @lesrecettesdesidy4246 4 года назад +2

    OMG Nice place my friend 🤩🤩🤩

  • @bretoniejo
    @bretoniejo 10 месяцев назад

    I’m from flin flon :) thanks for the vid! Flin-ta-bat-E flon-a-ton is how it’s pronounced 💜

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for the clarification! You live in a pretty beautiful part of Manitoba 😍

  • @stephaniebilly
    @stephaniebilly 3 года назад +1

    I live in Calgary now.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  3 года назад

      Me too! Always great to meet another Calgarian on the channel 👍

  • @jamesmoon1841
    @jamesmoon1841 4 года назад +1

    Well the Hanson Lake Road is still as rough as ever. Spent a lot of time at Limestone Lake so know the area well.

  • @grigorig1055
    @grigorig1055 4 года назад +1

    Will you be going to Churchill, Manitoba?

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  4 года назад +1

      That's a few videos back! Check out episodes 3 to 5 of this series 😎

    • @joannebutler6334
      @joannebutler6334 3 года назад

      @@DrifterDave I was born in Churchill and raised from 3 months old in good old Flin Flon. Yes, rescued and adopted.
      Was in Churchill once in my adult life. Incredible and hauntingly beautiful area with their mean little trees and rolling tundra. . June 1990.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  2 года назад

      Amazing place! I can't wait to go back.

  • @robinlavis
    @robinlavis 5 месяцев назад +2

    i grow up flin flon mb

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  5 месяцев назад

      @@robinlavis Awesome!!

  • @colleenikeda5536
    @colleenikeda5536 5 месяцев назад

    It the city of Flin Flon!

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  5 месяцев назад

      I never get really caught up with the distinctions - definitely a town-sized city, in this case!

  • @agedinthesun6689
    @agedinthesun6689 2 года назад

    Flin Flon is named after a science fiction character.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  2 года назад

      Interesting!!

    • @daniellysohirka5079
      @daniellysohirka5079 2 года назад

      @@DrifterDave The book is called "The Sunless City" published in 1905. Tom Crieghton was reading it at the time he discovered the Flin Flon ore body, then later named Mandy Mine and called the town Flin Flon as short form for the main characters name. I'm also from Flin Flon and still live here, we learn about the book in elementary school.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  Год назад

      Very interesting! I'll have to check it out!

  • @Noel_13
    @Noel_13 3 года назад

    Flin Flon is beautiful. Sad to see so many graffiti on the roadway rocks.

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  3 года назад +1

      Yes, it definitely has a rougher side! Beautiful setting, however.

  • @TommyWilliams-v6d
    @TommyWilliams-v6d 6 месяцев назад

    it is pronounced ath-a-path-a-scow

    • @DrifterDave
      @DrifterDave  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you for the clarification!