Local family is $1 million richer thanks to the Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Daily Lottery. "If I had a million dollars, if I had a million dollars...I'd be rich," Steven Page and Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies sing this famous line. Sarah and Rodney Landry of Southampton now get to live this famous line.

"This win means financial freedom," Sarah explains after winning the Daffodil Daily Lottery Grand Prize. "This just solidified our future, and the future educations of our sons who are three and five. It really is surreal!"

Sarah and her husband Rodney were in town on Thursday to collect their one million dollar cheque from the Canadian Cancer Society at the Bluewater Community Office location. The lucky one million dollar winners purchase their Daffodil Daily Lottery tickets yearly as it supports a cause that is near and dear to their hearts. "We're specifically thinking of my sister this year," Sarah says. "She has been breast cancer free for one year."

Since 2001, the Society lottery has generated over $70 million in cancer research funding. The Canadian Cancer Society dedicates 100% of the net proceeds from its main lottery to research into all types of cancer, benefiting people all across Ontario. Other local Daily Daffodil lottery winners include $10,000 winner Min Elliott from Markdale, $5,000 winner Trevor Benjamin from Collingwood, and $1,000 winners Scott McNeil-Smith and Quentin Stanford both from Owen Sound, as well as B. & K. MacTavish from Hanover.

Sarah and Rodney are excited to live debt free and are looking to invest the majority of their winnings. However, there may be a little room for some fun purchases as well. "Perhaps a family trip, a new truck and a Dyson vacuum!"

source: media release, Canadian Cancer Society