A Canadian man is celebrating a life-changing lottery win after claiming the $36 million Lotto 6/49 Gold Ball prize in mid-October.

Stacey Boyce of Whitecourt, Alberta, was revealed as the winner of the enormous prize on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Boyce was born and raised in Calgary but operates a logging company near Hinton, where he makes regular runs to the store to stock his camp.

“I’m there almost every day to get propane,” Boyce explained. “I usually buy my lottery tickets once a week [while I’m there].”

On one trip into town, Boyce checked his Lotto 6/49 ticket for the Oct. 15 draw.

“I went into 7-Eleven to buy some new propane tanks and scanned it,” he said. “I’d heard [the Lotto 6/49 winner] was someone in Alberta.”

Boyce’s jaw was on the floor when he saw the amount.

“I said, ‘Hol

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