Yellowknife (Dec 03/04) - It should be a very merry Christmas for Agnes Dumas, the latest in a string of Yellowknife lotto winners.

By paying an additional dollar on her Lotto 6/49 ticket, Yellowknife nurse Agnes Dumas won $100,000. Here, Grace Burton, the clerk who redeemed the ticket, shows off the loonie and slip that could be your ticket to fortune. - Alex Glancy/NNSL photo

Dumas, 70 years old and a nurse at Aven Manor, paid the extra dollar for the six EXTRA numbers on her Lotto 6/49 ticket at the Sport North kiosk in Centre Square Mall. When the Nov. 13 draw rolled around, she won.

But the strangest part was yet to come: Dumas thought she'd won $1,000, not $100,000.

"She said money was tight for Christmas and she was praying God would send her a thousand dollars," said Grace Burton, the lotto booth clerk at Extra Foods who cashed in the ticket.

"I said 'look, you won $100,000.'" Dumas didn't even believe the good news when Burton told her.

"She was shaking. She couldn't believe it," said Burton. "I had to go get her daughter out of the truck for her."

The happy grandmother told the Western Canada Lottery Corporation that she plans to invest for her retirement, visit family in B.C. and Ontario, and "have a nice Christmas."

Where's our millionaire?

Still unaccounted for is the winner of the million dollar prize in the Oct. 13 Western 6/49 draw. Yellowknife's newest millionaire has yet to step forward, so check your ticket just in case.