Frequently asked questions

Yes. Branch 370 has never run a 50/50 of its own, on paper or online. The only 50/50 ever documented at the hall belonged to a third-party renter — the Iroquois Amateur Radio Club, at its annual Hamfest. This is genuinely the first, and this website is the branch’s first web presence of any kind.

No. You must be physically present in Ontario at the time of purchase. Where you live is irrelevant. A visitor standing in Ontario may buy; an Ontario resident on holiday in Florida may not. The supplier’s checkout enforces this, not us.

Eighteen. There is no discretion in this and no exception at the bar.

Half of everything collected in ticket sales goes to one winner, and half stays with the branch. If the draw sells $600 of tickets, the winner receives $300 and the branch receives $300. There is no fixed prize.

Your odds are simply the number of tickets you hold divided by the total number of tickets sold in that draw. Because the total is not known until sales close, neither are your exact odds — but in a small draw of a few hundred tickets they are far better than any provincial lottery.

It may well be small, especially at first. Iroquois has about 1,406 residents, so a draw that sells 200 tickets at an average of $2 a ticket produces a prize in the low hundreds. We would rather say that plainly than advertise a five-figure jackpot we cannot produce. Every ticket bought from outside the village is what grows it.

No. The Canada Revenue Agency does not treat a lottery ticket as a gift, so no charitable tax receipt can be issued for one. This is true of every raffle in Canada, not just ours.

Not currently, as far as public records show. A lottery licence does not require CRA registration — it requires a charitable mandate assessed by the licensing authority. We are confirming the route with the Municipality of South Dundas and the AGCO, and we will publish the outcome on the Where the money goes page either way.

Entirely different. The Poppy Trust Fund is money donated during the Poppy campaign. It is held in trust, governed by national rules, and spent only on direct support for Veterans and their families — never on general branch costs. Raffle proceeds are branch general funds and pay for the hall and community programs. The two never mix, and this website keeps them in visually separate zones so that they cannot be confused.

No, and we have deliberately made that impossible. A Poppy Fund donation is not a raffle entry and a raffle ticket is not a donation. If you wish to donate to the Poppy Fund, see the Remembrance & Poppy Fund page.

At the branch hall, 24 Dundas St, Iroquois. The proposal is a monthly draw, with sales closing at noon on the last Thursday of the month and the draw held that Saturday. Exact dates are confirmed when the licence is issued. Draws are open to the public and will be photographed or livestreamed.

We contact the winner using the details given at checkout, and the result is posted on the Winners page. Bring your ticket confirmation and government-issued photo identification to the branch. Prizes must be claimed within six months of the draw.

We make documented efforts to reach the winner and advertise the unclaimed prize within 120 days. A prize still unclaimed after six months is dealt with as the Registrar directs.

Yes. Come to the lounge during opening hours, or telephone 613-652-4516 and a volunteer will complete the purchase with you. A good number of our members are not online and we have no intention of leaving them out.

Ticket sales run on an electronic raffle system supplied by a company registered with the AGCO. The branch does not handle your card details and does not operate the random number generator. The supplier will be named here once contracted.

Because they genuinely are not settled yet, and inventing a licence number, a founding year or a jackpot figure to make the site look finished would be worse than admitting the gap. Every TBC on this website is a real open question with a real owner.

Possibly, later. Catch the Ace is a progressive jackpot game that adds real administrative load — a report to the regulator within seven days after every fourth draw, among other things. A brand-new licensee should not take that on in month one. We will revisit it once the 50/50 has an established buyer base.

Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link that works immediately. You can also telephone the branch and ask to be removed. We do not sell or share your details with anyone.