November places (#7)

Some other interesting Canadian place names:

1. The one that tops everyone’s list: Dildo, Newfoundland & Labrador
2. The funnest-sounding PG-rated one: Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario (I am picturing a panoply of Punkeydoodlians promenading in pink pantaloons and periwinkle pullovers)
3. Mushaboom, Nova Scotia: This place name makes me fear that one day the town will suffer a Pompeii like fate when the local mushroom factory explodes and buries the inhabitants in mycelia.
4. Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec: Apparently the only place name in the world containing two—count ‘em, two!!!—exclamation points.
5. Flin Flon, Manitoba: From Wikipedia: The town's name is taken from the lead character in a paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake where he passed into a strange underground world through a hole lined with gold. A copy of the book was allegedly found and read by prospector Tom Creighton. When Tom Creighton discovered a high-grade exposure of copper, he thought of the book and called it Flin Flon's mine, and the town that developed around the mine adopted the name. Flin Flon shares with Tarzana, California, the distinction of being named after a character in an adventure novel.
6. Mosquito Grizzly Bears Head Lean Man, Saskatchewan: A First Nation reserve whose inhabitants, despite their scrawniness, are preyed on by creatures large and small.
7. Spuzzum and Skookumchuk, British Columbia: Two different places, but they sound like a pair of twin cities who everyone dotes on because they’re so gosh darn adorable.