The tiny village on the lower northern coast of Quebec was in Jackpot when the winning ticket to the lotto Max turned into more than a dozen of its inhabitants into instant millionaires.
The prize amounted to 50 million dollars, which means that 14 members of the group won 3,571,428 dollars at 3,571,428, Loto-Kubek said.
Thirteen out of 14 winners live in the Saint-Paul River, a community available only on a boat or an airplane that can boast of the population of about 150, which means that almost 10 percent the community is currently multimillionaires,
A group of residents of the village together played the lottery for about 20 years and purchased a victorious ticket in the only universal community store.
Loto-Kubek said that Diana Griffin Blanche drank her morning coffee the day after a draw in early September, when she told her friend: “Check, but I think we won 50 million.”
“Excellent news spread like a forest fire in the region …. Thanks to the calls and from the mouth to the mouth, other winners quickly tracked. Soon everyone gathered in a universal store for an impromptu party, filled with cries of joy and emotions, ” –
Loretta Cabot Griffin, who in seventy, found out about the victory when she was at work at the fish processing plant.
“When she found out that now she was a millionaire: she took off the grid and announced that she was retired on the spot,” said Loto-Kubek.
Della Spingle, another of those, and her husband Gryley Gryffin, who owns the universal store “St. Paul”, won a double victory. A retailer, who sold a winning ticket, receives a 1 percent commission of $ 500,000.
Griffin told CBC that the victory was an increase for the entire community. Local carpenters “fall asleep” from the winners of the lottery, which, finally, can make updates to their houses that they wanted to make for years.
