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Edmonton. Wop. [Wop May.]
[cut off]...Airport McMurray. [The airfield at Fort McMurray, Alberta. CF-AFL at left. Three additional airplanes are tended to at the site.]
Ft. Murray. [Fairchild CF-AAO, Fairchild CF-ATZ and Junkers CF-AMZ are parked on the river at Fort McMurray, Alberta.]
McMurray. [Aerial view of Fort McMurray, Alberta.]
Commercial Airways. Hangar at McMurray.
"Wop". [Wop May wearing his parka in winter, likely in Alberta.]
Ft. McMurray. Vi on Tractor. [Violet May drives a tractor, which has a cover over the engine due to the cold. In the background stand three men. Her husband Wop May may be at left. An airplane, also with its engine covered, is in the background as well.]
Mercy flight to Ft. Vermilion. Jan. 1929. [Preparing to crank the propeller of Avro Avian biplane G-CAVB. Wop May and Vic Horner flew the famous "Mercy Flight" to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in which dipththeria antitoxin was delivered in freezing conditions.]
Ft. Vermilion. Jan. 1929. [Group photograph relating to the "Mercy Flight" to Fort Vermilion, Alberta in which Vic Horner and Wop May delivered the diphtheria antitoxin in freezing conditions.]
Jan. 29. Mercy flight to Ft. Vermilion. [Wop May and Vic Horner prepare to fly to Fort Vermilion Alberta from Edmonton in their Avro Avian biplane G-CAVB. They prepare to take a dipththeria antitoxin to the residents of Fort Vermilion in freezing, treacherous conditions.]
Leaving on mercy flight to Ft. Vermilion. Jan. 1929. [Left to right.] Mayor Bury. Dr. Bow. Vic Horner. [Vic Horner prepares to fly in an Avro Avian biplane (G-CAVB). He and Wop May would take a dipththeria antitoxin to the residents of Fort Vermilion Alberta in freezing, treacherous conditions.]
Jan. 1929. Leaving on mercy flight to Ft. Vermilion. [Left to right. Mayor Bury of Edmonton. Dr. Bow. Vic Horner and Wop May prepare to fly in an Avro Avian biplane (G-CAVB). They would take a dipththeria antitoxin to the residents of Fort Vermilion Alberta in freezing, treacherous conditions.]
University of Alberta and Hospital. Taken from "Wop" May's machine [Aerial of Edmonton] 1924.
The Banks of the Athabaska.
Peace River.
Peace River.
Peace River country.
Colombia Glacier.
[Feeding Musk ox calves captured by Al Oeming for his Alberta Game Farm, nd]
H.B.Co's post, Chipewyan on Athabasca Lake, 500 miles north of Edmonton. [Alberta, C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Indians [Indigenous people] tracking the H.B.Co's fur boats up the rapids on Athabasca River, from Fort McMurray to Grand Rapids, 87 miles is almost one continuous rapid. [C.W. Mather's image, 1901].
Old Fairchild's [airplane] wreckage at Cooking Lake, Alta., float base southeast of Edmonton where most summer flights to north used to begin, before airports were common.
RCAF helicopter, flown into Embarras Portage emergency strip near mouth of Peace River in a C-119 Flying Boxcar, is reassembled, takes off to rescue trappers and families marooned on flooding Peace River in early May, 1957.
American bee farmer Dick Wright, Fort Vermillion, Alta., 1957. (He flew own aircraft, established farm outside town, died in crash in U.S. around 1960.)
RCAF helicopter, flown into Embarras Portage emergency strip near mouth of Peace River in a C-119 Flying Boxcar, is reassembled, takes off to rescue trappers and families marooned on flooding Peace River in early May, 1957. Rescued family.
