Imagine discovering you've just become a multi-millionaire…while at work? Well, that was literally the case for Patsy Lefebvre who discovered she had just won a whopping $2,000,000 playing Québec 49 during a work meeting.
Stéphane Vienneau and Maegan Judd of Montreal got the surprise of a lifetime after winning the Maxmillions prize of $1 million from the July 21 Lotto Max draw. Many of us dream of a day when we'll win the big bucks and be given a massive cheque of $1,000,000 and for Vienneau and Judd, that day came just in time for their wedding anniversary.
If an extra grand in income is a wonderful surprise, one thousand extra grands is nearly unimaginable. So it makes sense that Outaouais resident Vivian Donovan Nezan assumed she'd won just one thousand dollars in her Lotto Max Maxmillions draw.
When it comes to claiming a million-dollar prize, most people might settle for an Uber or a taxi to pick up their winnings, but one Quebec man had much fancier plans. Marco Poirier, who won the million-dollar grand prize playing Extra, went all out and arrived in a limo, proving that when you're rolling in dough, you might as well roll in style, too.
After winning $32 million in Lotto Max's big payout, Liliane Synotte Deschênes turned to her loved ones to spread the windfall. But first, she bought herself a new house and a new car, fulfilling the dreams she told Loto-Québec about upon receiving her payout.