By 1914 a row of tents and log cabins, along with two cookhouses capable of feeding two hundred people at a time, developed at a place known as "Beaver City".
The story is about a man named Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin "Flin Flon", who piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake.
When Tom Creighton discovered a rich vein of almost pure copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon.
The town of Creighton was founded in the 1930s, when some twenty homes were built on either side of the winter trail between Flin Flon and Sandy Bay (Denare).
The community grew somewhat after the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources constructed a road from Flin Flon to Amisk Lake.