Beverly Magill of Armstrong won $500K on a Maxmillions Lotto Max ticket.
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August 03, 2023 - 10:33 AM
Armstrong resident Beverly Magill “stood there in shock” after learning she won half a million dollars on a lotto ticket she bought from the Deep Creek General Store.
Magill split the Maxmillions Lotto Max prize with another ticket purchased in Ontario from the July 25, 2023 draw, according to a media release by the BC Lottery Corporation.
“I checked the ticket and stood there in shock,” she said in the release of the moment she saw the winning numbers. “I thought, ‘This can’t be true, something must be wrong.’”
Magill couldn’t wait to share the news with her two best friends. One was with her and she phoned the other one right away.
The lucky winner is now planning a vacation and gifting some of the windfall to her kids, and “looks forward to enjoying life with less stress now.”
When asked how it feels to win half a million dollars, Magill said, “It’s unbelievable. Once in a lifetime thing.”
So far in 2023, B.C. lottery players redeemed more than $181 million in winnings from Lotto Max. The largest lottery prize ever won in B.C. was a $70 million Lotto Max jackpot, won in September 2021.
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