The Flin Flon Heritage Project has teamed up with the Northern Neighbours Foundation, to help finance an annual award to a local student - either from Creighton Community School or Hapnot Collegiate - with an interest in local history.

It is officially being named the Doug Evans Heritage Project Award for the Preservation of Flin Flon and District History. Evans began studying our communities past in order to learn more about his father, former Flin Flon Mayor George Wellington Evans.

Winning students have to plan to attend post-secondary school focusing on history, archaeology, anthropology, library and information science, museum studies, education or a similar field.

The fund sits at $18, 000 allow for several years’ worth of awards for students, with interest accruing on the money keeping it sustainable over time.