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• diptheria
• fortvermilion
• wopmay
• vichorner
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Mercy Flight: Wop May and Vic Horner off to Fort Vermilion with diptheria antitoxin.

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

• Swordscookie said:

  Such an important image and such an important event. Now that Diphtheria is almost wiped out most young people will never have heard of it. When I was a child it was one of the great fears for families with children. There must have been a big outbreak up there.

• Provincial Archives of Alberta said:

  There was a big outbreak at the time and the only way to get medicine to them was via air. It was big news at the time.

Wop May and Vic Horner greeted at Peace River on the way to Fort Vermilion.

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

• jamica1 said:

  Great juxtaposition of two technologies

• Provincial Archives of Alberta said:

  I wish that riverboats like those were still a common sight on Alberta's rivers.