The Flinty statue is not grand art, but it is the right mascot for a town with one of Canada's strangest names. The figure was designed by cartoonist Al Capp and turns the fictional Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin into a grinning local emblem.
It is a quick stop, best paired with a walk through the centre and the museum. The point is not the statue alone; it is the way a pulp-fiction name became civic identity in a hard-rock mining town.