![]() ![]() ![]() “I bought this house here 45 to 46 years ago and fixed it all up.” “Fished with my father when I was only 16 for a couple of years, then I bought my own boat,” he says. Hirtle has lived in the same home for more than 40 years and worked as a fisherman up until two years ago, when he retired at the age of 75. “I went to bed but I couldn’t sleep, thinking about it all night,” says Hirtle. He said ‘I won, I won the lottery,’” says Eric Hirtle. “Leon came home into the house, hollering and going on. ![]() “If I’d have won $1,000 I’d be satisfied.”īut Hirtle’s brother says he was ecstatic when he realized he had won. “I’m quite content the way I am,” says the Bell Island resident. He says all that money isn’t going to change a thing. Hirtle is a retired fisherman who leads a simple life. “I just wasn’t in a hurry to get my cheque,” says 77-year-old Leon Hirtle. Nova Scotia’s newest millionaire still hasn’t cashed in his ticket five days after winning $13.8 million in Wednesday's Lotto 6/49 draw. ![]()
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