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	LAMP Mercy Flight (1979) The Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots (LAMP) organized a fund-raising event which commemorated the "Mercy Flight" to Fort Vermilion in January 1929.  The purpose of the original flight was to bring the necessary antitoxin needed to avert a diphtheria epidemic. LAMP sponsored Vacation Bible Schools throughout northern Canada including several at Fort Vermilion, Rocky Lane, Zama and Chipewyan Lake in Alberta. Fort Vermilion Heritage Centre Accession No. 990.4.36.4          Glenbow Collection NA-1821-2     Previous "Making History" Next "Making History" Click to return to "Making History" main page   Acknowledgements: Summer Career Placement Program staff, Keith Klassen (2004/2005) & Jordan Lambert (2006) and Marilee Cranna Toews of the Fort Vermilion Agricultural Society