Montreal cat dad wins $5 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot, plans to buy first home

Pierre Draws of Montreal won the $5 million Lotto 6/49 draw. (Loto-Quebec)

In under a week, Quebecers wound up with $30 million in lottery jackpot draws.

Loto-Quebec said on Tuesday that Montreal resident Pierre Draws lived up to his surname and took home $5 million in the classic Lotto 6/49 July 4 draw. In addition, a 10-person group ticket out of Laval won the Lotto Max jackpot on July 10 and took home $25 million ($2.5 million per).

According to the Crown corporation, Draws said he checked his ticket on the Loto-Quebec app and thought he’d won $5,000, but realized there were too many zeroes.

“Five million doesn’t change you, except... it’s quite something!” he said, accepting his cheque at Loto-Quebec’s head office in downtown Montreal. “I feel like I’m on cloud nine!”

Draws plans to buy his first home.

“I think I deserve a house, a more beautiful life for me and my cat,” said the recent retiree.

Draws, in his 60s, bought his ticket at the Boni-Soir – Marché Bachir depaneur in Anjou.

That store will receive a 1 per cent commission of $50,000.

Loto-Quebec did not provide further information about the group ticket that had the winning numbers of the $25 million jackpot.