2021 was a big year for lottery players in British Columbia, with more than $891 million dollars in total prizes paid out.
According to BCLC, more than 102 million winning tickets were sold to players at both retail locations and online across the province.
BC saw a record-breaking number of wins, but Vancouver Island, specifically, saw $100.4 million in prizes paid out to players.
“As 2021 wraps up, we’re celebrating all of our players and so many amazing, life-changing dreams that came true for lottery winners,” said Lynda Cavanaugh, BCLC’s Interim President and CEO.
“It’s thanks to each one of our players that BCLC generates revenue for the Province of B.C., which in turn invests it back into the communities where our players live and work in. It’s a win-win-win, and today we’re celebrating more than 15 million winning tickets sold on Vancouver Island in 2021.”
In 2021, Vancouver Island residents’ winnings included a family who discovered they had won half a million dollars while out for lunch, a couple who shared their news of winning $1 million through a game of telephone, a woman who won $3 million with Lotto 6/49 and more!
Some other lottery highlights for Vancouver Island in 2021 include 15.7 million winning tickets sold, 11 grand prize-winning tickets sold, valued at $500,000 or more and 3 million free-play tickets won over the year.
Now off we go to get our tickets!
