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The Lavigueur family is a Quebec family who made headlines in Canada in the 1980s after winning a lottery jackpot of $7,650,267 in 1986, which was then the largest prize ever given by Loto-Québec.〔(Les Lavigueur gagnent le gros lot (TV report) ), Société Radio-Canada, March 29, 1986.〕 The trials and troubles of the Lavigueur family have since become entrenched in Quebec popular culture for various reasons: the fact that a poor family became multimillionaires overnight, the intervention of a stranger who found the lottery ticket lost by the family's father, the judicial saga of one of the family's daughters, the only member of the family to not have participated in the purchase of the winning ticket, suing her father for a fraction of the jackpot, the subsequent family disputes that tore apart the family which dissipated its fortune, all of which received wide coverage in the mainstream media of Quebec. ==Jackpot== The Lavigueurs lived in the Centre-Sud, a poor neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec. Jean-Guy Lavigueur had been unemployed for a year and a half after having worked for 34 years at United Bedding Company. The father was raising his four children, Sylvie, Yve, Louise and Michel, with the help of his brother-in-law Jean-Marie Daudelin, since the death of the children's mother, Micheline Daudelin, who died of sudden cardiac arrest in 1983. The couple also had two girls who died in infancy from heart problems. A few days before the draw, Jean-Guy Lavigueur lost his wallet, which was given back to him by a good Samaritan, 28-year-old William Murphy,〔Chris Gudgeon, Barbara Stewart, ’’Luck of the Draw : True-Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers’’, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2001.〕 from Vancouver, British Columbia, who had recently moved to Montreal, and was himself unemployed. Murphy found the wallet and gave it back to Lavigueur, with a lottery ticket which he knew was the jackpot winner. When he got to the Lavigueur's house to give them back the unsigned winning ticket, it was the eldest son, Yve, who answered the door and refused to let him in, not understanding what he wanted. Murphy came back a second time to meet the father. The new millionaires were Jean-Guy, Sylvie, Yve and Michel Lavigueur, Jean-Marie Daudelin, and William Murphy, with whom the family agreed to share the jackpot. In 1986, Louise Lavigueur, the only member of the family who did not take part in the purchase of the ticket, sued her father to get a share of the jackpot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lavigueur family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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