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Charitable gaming

Lottery

The gambling of the largest by area and the second-largest by population province of Canada is controlled by a government corporation Loto-Québec. It was created for control and operation of legal gambling authorities in Québec. To permit lottery schemes in provinces, Loto-Québec was started in December 1969 after the emendation of the Canadian Criminal Code and set up the first lottery in the country. The corporation began ticket sales for the monthly passive game Inter Loto fast on the heels of the foundation. The first drawing of that lottery was dated March 14, 1970. Additional games launched that year included the weekly Mini and the quarterly Super.[1]

In 1971, Loto-Perfecta was launched by Loto-Québec with a new mechanical wager-registration system. A differentiating feature of that lottery was the determination of its results - by horse races. Move towards a new era, and video games started in 1978 when Loto-Québec launched its first computerized terminal games. The first game title of that time, 6 /36 lotto, still exists and is available to play.[2]

Net revenues from Loto-Québec operations are turned over to the government, and the funds are used, in part, to finance health and education services, infrastructure improvements, and provincial debt reduction.[3]

Casinos

This is an incomplete list of casinos in Canada as of around 2021: [4][5][6]

Type Ownership Facilities
Name Region/city Prov. Est. R D C REC GO FN PF PO C NFP S SAR R V
Casino de Montréal Montreal QC 1993 checkY checkY
Casino de Charlevoix La Malbaie QC 1994 checkY checkY
Casino du Lac-Leamy Gatineau QC 1996 checkY
Casino du Mont-Tremblant Mont-Tremblant QC 2009 checkY
Hippodrome d'Aylmer Aylmer QC 2008 checkY checkY
Hippodrome de Montréal Montreal QC 2008 checkY checkY
Hippodrome De Québec Quebec City QC 2008 checkY checkY
Ludoplex Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières QC 2008
Ludoplex Québec Quebec City QC 2008
Playground Poker Club Kahnawake QC 2010 checkY

Sports Betting

Lots of the leading bookmakers from the 1930s to the 1960s got their start during the prohibition era of the 1920s. But sports betting became legal in Quebec only in 1985 when gambling was made legal in the country, but it took several years before the gaming sector in Quebec started to shape into the giant it is today.[7]

References

  1. ^ Comité interministériel chargé de l'évaluation du projet de relocalisation du Casino de Montréal (March 2006), Le rapport (PDF) (in French), retrieved 4 January 2022
  2. ^ "Loto-Québec abandonne le projet" (in French). Radio-Canada. 10 March 2006.
  3. ^ "History of Loto Quebec". Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  4. ^ "OLG - OLG: Casinos & Slots". Olg.ca. Archived from the original on 2011-07-04. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  5. ^ "OLG - OLG Slots". Olg.ca. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  6. ^ "Canada Casinos - Alberta Gambling Research Institute". abgamblinginstitute.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2015-03-16.
  7. ^ (Davies, 2001)

Bibliography

  • Davies, Richard (2001). Betting the Line Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press ISBN 0-8142-0880-0


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