| Winner | Prize (in millions) | Draw Date | Location Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivan Sawitsky | 1 | Dec. 26, 2001 | Campbellford, ON |
| 24-year-old Larry Bain said "I started jumping up and down, then I ran upstairs to tell my Mom." | 2 | Dec. 19, 2001 | Quick Pick from Shell Select on 2222 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba. This marks the third consecutive year that a jackpot winning ticket purchased in Manitoba was won during the Christmas season. |
| The ten lucky winners - all but two
associated with the Aristocrat Restaurant in Winnipeg - are: Gloria Asban,
restaurant owner; 44-year old son Willie visiting from the Philippines; Alicia Perez,
chef; kitchen assistants Rosario Chingcuangco, Roberto Obtial,
Primitiva Doria
and Romana Francisco; Russell del Rosario, cashier; Abelardo Tamondong,
busboy; and Peter Francisco, brother of Romana. This marks the first time the
entire group has played the lottery together. All but Willie will receive over $1.9 million from the windfall. With two shares in the winning ticket, he will receive over $3.8 million. He discovered the win the night of the draw as he checked the winning numbers on the Internet. While he notified several group members that night, it took until Saturday morning to deliver the good news to his mother on her 71st birthday. Asban closed the restaurant Monday because of all the media hype but plans to reopen it in a day or two to get ready for Christmas orders. She says she wouldn't disappoint her loyal customers. Asban plans to serve free meals to restaurant regulars over a two-day period in the near future. She plans to pay off the restaurant mortgage and keep the 15-year-old Aristocrat Restaurant running. She also plans to give some of her new-found fortune to her church, the local Philippines Centre and family members. |
19.9 | Dec. 14, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
A ticket bought from the restaurant's own lottery machine
hit the jackpot the same night. The Canadian lottery
corporations should raise their standards and prevent the perceived
conflict of interest of lottery retailers selling the winning ticket to
themselves. Manitoba sells only 3% of national lottery sales. Yet in the last three years, it has celebrated over $91 million in lottery jackpot prizes. |
| Stoney Creek resident, Gary Simms, has been a regular
subscriber to the lottery since 1993. Simms was out of the country when
his numbers came up last week. He was on a job site in the United States
when he got a call from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation telling
him that the same Lotto 6/49 numbers he's been playing for years came up.
"I thought someone was pulling a joke on me." It wasn't until he called his wife, Ann and asked her to check the numbers on the Internet that he learned for sure he had the winning ticket. Simms, 50, is an executive for Kvaerner Songer Canada in Burlington. They have three children. |
2 | Dec. 5, 2001 | Lotto Advance Subscriptions player |
| A lottery ticket retailer took the money
from a customer but did not give the ticket. Penny Hickson of London, Ontario
kept the Lottario ticket and when the numbers came up, she claimed the
whole $400,000 jackpot. Paul Rutherford, a truck driver by trade, said buying the ticket sprung out of a conversation the two were having at Hickson's store in 1993. They used a shaker to pick the lucky numbers and Rutherford gave her money but never saw the ticket. According to Rutherford, when the numbers came up, Hickson did not tell him and claimed the prize a month later. Rutherford took Hickson to court and won, but she had spent the prize by then. And two months after Rutherford won a second time in the Court of Appeal, Hickson claimed bankruptcy. Rutherford did manage to recoup some money from a lawsuit against the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, alleging they knew about the conflict and still gave the prize to Hickson. In the end, Rutherford was up about $170,000. But that is about $130,000 less than his share of the original jackpot with eight years of interest, and he only saw the money last month. "It was frustrating," Rutherford said. "I don't know who I am more frustrated with — her, the lottery corporation or our justice system. It was a bittersweet win." For Hickson, there is no sweetness. She said the end has yet to come. Rutherford's lawyer is opposing her discharge from bankruptcy over an alleged failure to disclose what she did with the jackpot. |
$400,000 | Jackpot won in 1993 but not settled in court until 2001! | Lessons: Put any lottery agreement in writing; all lottery
corporations offer forms for group-purchasing agreements. Do not trust any one source, including the retailer; always check your tickets in Lottery Buddy before handing the ticket to a retailer. |
| Paul & Stella Levesque. "Funny thing is,"
Stella says "I had just told him recently to stop buying lottery tickets.
I'm really glad he didn't listen!" Paul has been playing the lottery for more than 20 years and isn't a first time winner. He won almost $14 thousand dollars with a group of fellow workers back in the early 1980s. Paul, 44, works for Transvideo Inspection, while Stella, 41, is a homemaker. They have two children. |
1 | Dec. 1, 2001 | Lloyd's Variety, Hamilton, ON |
| 63-year old Ronald Jordan has been faithfully buying a LOTTO 6/49 ticket for each draw since the game started in 1982. | 5 | Nov. 21, 2001 | Quick Pick from Gourmet Cup, 112-200 4th Avenue South, Lethbridge, Alberta |
| Deena Newman-Valentine | 1 | Nov. 17, 2001 (BC/49) |
Langley, BC |
| Don MacInnis | 2 | Nov. 7, 2001 | ON |
| Ihsan Khan is a 43-year-old self-employed cab driver from Arlington, Virginia. Mr. Khan says, "I've played those numbers for six years, and now I'm happy I've won. I plan to help my family and continue doing Godly things." He is married and has three boys, who are 15, 9 & 6 years of age. Mr. Khan, originally from Pakistan, has lived in the United States for 22 years. | U$32.5 | Nov. 7, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Key Bridge Exxon Station, 3607 M Street in Georgetown, District of Columbia. Lottery agent Eun Kim will receive $100,000. |
| Serge Corbeil has 3 children. | 10 | Oct. 24, 2001 | Marché d'alimentation Marcanio at 7172 Bombardier St., Anjou, Québec will receive $100,000. |
| Helen L. Houston, a life-long fan of horseback riding, retired from her housecleaning job after winning. Helen, who has two sons, has been using the same birthday numbers for 12 years. Her 10-draw Advance Buy ticket matched all six BC/49 winning numbers on the final draw! | 1 | Oct. 13, 2001 (BC/49) |
Cranbrook, BC |
| Group of 28 at a school, including Elizabeth Willems, Michael Brenneis & Lee Ann Lagace. | 2 | Oct. 6, 2001 | Quick Pick tickets in St. Albert, Winnipeg |
| Mary & Julian Wira. The 60-year old lady started purchasing a lotto ticket for every draw and playing the same combination of numbers 15 years ago. She is a supervisor at the local Dairy Queen. Julian plans to leave his job as the DQ manager just as soon as they find a replacement. "I'm going to phone them (75 relatives) and let them know they can jump on a plane and come and get their money." | 10 | Oct. 3, 2001 | Fortland Video, Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan |
| Group of 12 Grant County farmers (7 family members and 5 co-workers), including Darrell & Cathy Middlesworth. This group chips in $2 a week per person to play Hoosier Lotto and Powerball. Although the membership of the lottery pool has slightly changed through the years, the group has played together for at least five years (only during harvest time). The jackpot hasn't made them quit while they're ahead. Cathy, who purchases the tickets, was given money from the other members so she could purchase tickets for the next drawing. Ranging in age from 22 to 74 years old, the group of 12 farm corn, soybeans and tomatoes. | U$27.3 | Sept. 26, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Quick Pick at S & J Service, Indiana |
| Donna & Bruce Macahonic. Her ticket spent almost five months in her van's glove box. | 5 | Sept. 22, 2001 | Vegreville & District Co-op, 4914-51st Avenue, Vegreville, AB |
| Paul LaPointe & Tammy Donald of Springfield. Tammy is a special care home worker. | 5 | Sept. 8, 2001 | Shawn's Convenience in Saint John, N.B. The retailer will receive a $50,000 seller's prize. |
| 28 co-workers, including Gaston Lavoie and Darren Belanger. The group had been laid off by Columbia Forest Products. | 12.5 | Aug. 31, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
Rutherglen, ON |
| Kathleen Kearney, a Delaware first-grade
teacher, and her brother, Michael, who urged her to
buy the tickets. Her winning ticket lay inside her purse for five days
before she thought to check and see if it was worth anything. "I never win
anything," she said. They received an after-tax check for just over U$30 million. Michael is a lawyer who lives in Murrysville, Pennsylvania with his wife and two daughters, ages 16 and 18. |
U$41.4 | Aug. 25, 2001 (US Powerball) |
The lucky sale was made at 8:06 p.m. on Saturday at Books and Tobacco store in Hockessin, Delaware that usually closes at 8 p.m. |
| Sheryel Hanuman, a medical records clerk, bought a card for a wedding when she made a last-minute purchase of five Powerball lottery tickets. The Roseville woman and her husband, Chrisna, have three sons, ages 11, 10 and 9. | U$41.4 | Aug. 25, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Minneapolis grocery store |
| Pat (60) and Erwin (70) Wales of Buxton hid
their winning ticket in a box of Corn Chex. She won $20 in a Maine
lottery Saturday, then followed that up with a Megabucks win for $5.
She will likely leave her job as a disbursement specialist at Lincoln
Financial Group in Portland. He is a retired labourer. The couple will
share their winnings with their six children, seven grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren. Pat bought 190 tickets at 7:47 p.m. EDT for her office pool. Two minutes later, she bought an additional 20 tickets for her family. The winning ticket was the last of the 20 sold. |
U$41.4 | Aug. 25, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Cumberland Farms store in Rollinsford, New Hampshire |
| David Edwards, a 46-year old divorced father
who had just been laid off from his job
says he is one of four winners of the U$294.8 million Powerball jackpot.
The winning tickets were sold in New Hampshire, Delaware, Kentucky and Minnesota.
Edwards said he had recently been laid off from his fibre optics job and
was in need of back surgery. He said he purchased $8 worth of chances -
seven for himself and one for his fiancee. He used
birthdays and other significant
numbers for his first four plays. For the fifth, which turned out to be the
jackpot winner, Edwards said he decided to try something new and conjured
up random numbers in his head. Kentucky corrections officials said Edwards was convicted of robbery in 1981 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled and returned to prison several times before serving out his sentence in 1997. He also has a conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. |
U$41.4 | Aug. 25, 2001 (US Powerball) |
He bought the winning ticket Saturday night at Clark's Pump N Shop in Westwood, a community outside Ashland, Kentucky. |
| Five co-workers borrowed two brand new Lexuses from O'Regan's Lexus Toyota where they all work to pick up their prize. Laura Lee Patterson, Tracy Thompson, Kathleen Gilgan, Myrtle Chisholm and Mort Samson have been buying lottery tickets together twice a week for almost three years. They had never won more than $90. | 10 | Aug. 11, 2001 | Infoplace Ticket Center in the Penhorn Mall, Dartmouth, N.S. will receive a $100,000 seller's prize. |
| Maryam Talini, 37, was down $900 from
playing blackjack before winning $1,309,301.20 on a slot machine. The
Mississauga woman lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband
and four children. "I didn't know what happened. This is the first time I played the machine. There was no music, no lights. This lady was sitting beside me and I asked her, 'Did I get something?' And she looks at it and said, 'Yes, you got the jackpot, you got $1 million.' |
1.3 | July 23, 2001 (slot machine) |
Casino Niagara |
| Andrew Evans, a digital artist, is planning to return to school to further his education. His immediate plans for his windfall is to share with his daughter Rena, 5 siblings and to take his 4-year-old granddaughter to Disney World. | 9.7 | July 20, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
Upper Stewiacke Co-op in Stewiacke Valley, NS, who will receive the $97,226.42 seller's prize |
| Peggy Sexmith | 1 | July 11, 2001 (BC/49) |
Maple Ridge, BC |
| Pam Fowler made casino history when she hit the $1,329,994.25 jackpot - the largest slot machine win in Ontario. Fowler, 37, a construction company manager and mother of one, shares a mansion with Stoney Creek builder Don Snively. Snively is one of the visionaries behind a proposed hotel/commercial redevelopment in downtown Hamilton. | 1.3 | July 7, 2001 (Slot machine) |
The Niagara Falls casino just installed its new Megabucks slot machines 2 weeks ago. The machines are hooked up to other Megabucks machines at Casino Windsor and Casino Rama. They randomly pay out a minimum $1 million jackpot. That means there could be any number of million-dollar winners in one day, or no winners for two years. |
| Don & Heather Burchill. They have a 13 year-old daughter named Samantha. | 4.6 | June 20, 2001 | Grimes Loto Booth, Gander Mall, Gander, Nfld. |
| Rich Kasyjanski, 27, and his wife, Shannon, were already celebrating his first Father's Day with the baptism of their twin 11-week-old sons when he found out they won. Kasyjanski, a bartender at McCoy's Public House in the Westport area of Kansas City, resigned from his job Sunday. The native of Long Island, N.Y. said he purchase suppliesd for his sons' baptism party and decided to buy a few Powerball tickets on his way out. He let the computer pick the numbers on his $3 ticket. The Kasyjanskis are still deciding if they would like to receive their prize money in one lump sum payment of $10,730,854.57 before taxes, or whether they would like to receive approximately $784,000 a year before taxes for the next 25 years. They have 60 days from the drawing to decide. | U$10.7 | June 16, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Marsh's Sun Fresh, 4001 Mill St. in Kansas City |
| Lorraine and Gilles Daigle of Rogersville, N.B. They have a son named Christian. They've decided to use their windfall to purchase a new home and each a new vehicle, share with their families and take an early retirement. | 2 | June 2, 2001 | The Daigles immediately took their ticket to Lorraine's uncle who owns Dépanneur Gallant, where they bought the ticket. "We left the ticket with my uncle Raymond because we were too scared we would lose it. We signed it first, of course," laughed Lorraine. Dépanneur Gallant will receive a $20,000 seller's prize. |
| An Aussie fired from his job at a ferry-building company learned hours later that he had won a lottery jackpot. He and 99 fellow workers were to be laid off by Incat, a company that makes wave-piercing catamaran ferries. | 4.5 | June 1, 2001 (Australia Powerball) |
Hobart, Australia |
| Linda Burns, a 42-year old supervisor at a Warrensburg battery plant, of Centerview, and her husband, Bob, 48, who is a Frito Lay route salesman. The couple said they both plan to take an early retirement, share some of the prize with their family and buy a new motor home to travel the United States. Their youngest son, who is 17, would like to get a new pickup truck. He let the computer pick the numbers on his $2 ticket. | US33.4 | May 30, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Pittsville PDQ in Holden, Missouri |
| 10 co-workers from the College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, including Laura Lee Sampson. | 10 | May 23, 2001 | Midtown Variety of St. Georges, Newfoundland will receive a $100,000 seller's prize. |
| Fred & Joyce Coles. Fred, who works in the shipping department at Purity Factory, isn't planning on quitting his job anytime soon. The Coles have been married for 30 years and have two daughters. | 1 | May 12, 2001 | Goulds Video in Goulds, Nfld. |
| 12 helicopter workers: Gerald Whalen,
Andrew Davidson, Bob Glenn, Tuan Le, Robert Longley, Derek Longley, Grant
Olender, Darel Reimer, Gene Scharikow, Gary Shabaga, Cameron Stewart and
Lynn Werry. For a number of years, the staff at Custom Helicopters have
faithfully played LOTTO 6/49 on an informal 'honour system' - if you want
to participate throw your money into the plastic fruit dish in the coffee
room, and add your name to the list. About an hour before the draw, Gerald noticed that the money and list for Saturday night's draw was still on the table. While not the normal trustee for the group, he purchased Quick Pick tickets on behalf of the group. As fate would have it, the first ticket purchased won. |
2.2 | May 5, 2001 | 7-11 Food Store, 55 Main Street in Selkirk, Manitoba |
| Cynthia and Neville Francis. Cynthia is a a federal government employee. | 6 | May 2, 2001 | Ottawa, ON | 10 employees at the Bank of Nova Scotia, including Barbara Powell. | 6 | May 2, 2001 | Osborne's Foodland in Glovertown, Nfld. will receive a $60,000 seller's prize. |
| Carolyn & Carl Jensen | 10 | April 20, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
St. Thomas, ON |
| For the 2nd time in 3 years, Angel &
Mercedes Rojas have won the Lotto 6/49 jackpot. "Canada has made all of my
dreams come true," said Rojas, who recalls the
bitterness of having to flee his native Chile as a political refugee. "My
dreams were that my (4) children are well educated and that my wife and I
have a roof over our heads, food and work. The lottery money is certainly welcome, but it's gravy. The real luck was
finding a home for our family in Canada. I feel blessed." They spend about $50 a week on 6/49 tickets. The odds of winning 2 separate jackpots, according to statisticians, are in the billions, and has never happened before. After the first win, Rojas said, his life didn't change drastically, but he did quit his job as a maintenance co-ordinator in a housing co-op. "But maybe it was a big mistake, because I had more time to spend my money," he said. He lost a lot of it in well-intentioned loans to friends who haven't been able to pay him back - and now probably never will. So now he'll keep his part-time job - doing maintenance in a housing co-op. After paying off their $140,000 mortgage yesterday, the Rojases banked the rest. But Rojas has learned from his first win. No more loans to friends. |
1 | April 18, 2001 | Scarborough, ON |
| Martina Dunnsville picked numbers with religious significance. | 10 | April 15, 2001 | Etobicoke, ON |
| Martina Dunville | 10 | April 14, 2001 | Red Rock, ON |
| Robert & Joseph (49) Maggiano. The brothers declined to hold a news conference or have their pictures taken. Joseph, who's originally from Queens, N.Y., said they were hiding from the media and the public. He's a retired master sergeant from U.S. Air Force. | U$33 | April 14, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Convenience store in Phoenix, Arizona |
| Ronald & Heather Conners. Ron is retired from GM and Heather works in McKie Automotive in Oshawa. | 12 | April 4, 2001 | Lake Scucog, ON |
| Alan Reine | 1 | March 31, 2001 (Western 649) |
Crossroads Shell Service, 2020-16 Avenue NE in Calgary, AB |
| A group of 34 winners, mostly retirees. Depending on their specific shares, the winners' individual prizes varied from $90,883 to $1.8 million, which went to Mr. André Martel. The leader was Claude Gauthier. | 8.1 | March 23, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
Variétés Sainte-Foy, located at 319 Sainte-Foy Boulevard in Longueuil, Quebec, receives a bonus cheque of $81,795, representing 1% of the jackpot. |
| Ernie Schaump and 14 co-workers at
Johnson Matthey gold and silver refiners on Glidden Rd. bought $75 in
quick pick tickets. The men arrived at the Ontario Lottery Corp. in three
stretch limousines to collect their equal shares of $545,000,
then celebrated at the home of production supervisor Schaump. The winners all reported for a scheduled shift the next day. Schaump took them to the back of the plant to confirm the good news. Then he arranged for them to meet with a financial planner. Schaump, 43, plans to invest all his money. The workers earn between $15 and $19 an hour at the plant. Other winners from Brampton are: Carmen Bambecca, Scott Neil, Herm Mederios, H. "Tiger" Dhillon, Joey McRae, Alan Anaka, Sean Power, Craig Murray and Aaron Ross. Winners from Toronto are Jan Sienkiewicz and Emile Levy, from Georgetown Don Lincoln, from Mississauga David Grandy, and from parts unknown, Kevin Follett. |
8.1 | March 23, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
Goodies Variety on Kennedy Rd. South, Brampton, ON |
| Nurses at the Centre hospitalier regional de Trois-Rivières, Nicole Boileau of Trois-Rivières West, Hélène Farley and Carmen Comeau, both of Trois-Rivières. | 2.5 | March 17, 2001 | Loto-Québec's lottery subscription service |
| Claudette & Gilles Dionne, both retired. "The clerk was punching our selection and she punched in a 22 instead of the 2, but we decided to keep the ticket anyway," said Gilles. "It was an amazing stroke of luck!" | 2 | March 7, 2001 | Jean Coutu Pharmacy in Edmundston, NB |
| Lori MacDonald, a hairdresser & Bobby Rideout, a seasonal worker, of Petty Harbour. | 2.5 | Feb. 24, 2001 | William's Delicatessen/Convenience in St. John's, Nfld. |
| Michael Goulden, 52, is a factory worker.
He buys $14 worth of tickets per week.
"I think it's ridiculous to have this much money," he said. "All I wanted was
$100,000. It's crazy." His girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter accompanied him to lottery headquarters. Goulden said he would not return to his $30,000-a-year job at Key Container Corp., where he has worked for 24 years. Aside from buying a BMW and paying off his $48,000 mortgage, Goulden said he has not decided how to spend the money or even whether to take the U$93.5 million in 25 annual instalments or a lump sum. |
U$51 | Feb. 21, 2001 (US Powerball) |
Cranston, Rhode Island |
| Janice Rintoul, a retired receptionist. | 1 | Feb. 17, 2001 (BC/49) |
Victoria, BC |
| Motie & Linda Zoora. Motie is a lottery retailer and sold himself the winning ticket. The store he manages even got the $50,000 retailer commission. Unlike the Canadian lottery corporations, many other sweepstakes prevent the potential and perceived conflict of interest by prohibiting their employees and affiliates from winning their own game. | 5 | Feb. 14, 2001 | Bradford, ON |
| Sabrina (29)
& Vito Palmieri (39). "Due to the rain, I happened to walk in the mall and bumped into
the (lottery) kiosk," said Sabrina, who might otherwise never have bought
that winning ticket. "In a year I probably play 10 times," she said. They have hired a team of financial advisers, decided to take a trip "some place hot" and are toying with quitting their jobs. He's a self-employed tile contractor, she's an office administrator. It was Sunday, his birthday, when he and Sabrina discovered they had the winning numbers. They are both from central Italy. They have been married five years and have a 2-year-old son Matthew. It's the eighth largest Canadian lottery jackpot win and the fourth biggest lottery win in Canadian history on a single ticket. |
19.6 | Feb. 9, 2001 (Lotto Super 7) |
Lottery kiosk in Woodbridge Mall, Vaughan, ON |
| Evan Davis | 1 | Feb. 7, 2001 | Scarborough, ON |
| Catherine Earle, 49 years old and single. | 5 | Jan. 24, 2001 | Caledon, ON |
| Locksmith Brian Read and his partner, Karen, will buy a house. There will be an education fund for his three children. "I want to go back to school and take an accounting course, and learn about investing." | 5 | Jan. 10, 2001 | Coquitlam, BC |
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