![]() ![]() ![]() The Ontario Lottery Corporation Act was passed in 1975, and subsequently, the Ontario Lottery Corporation (OLC) was established in the same year with the purpose of regulating any such activities. Things started to gradually shift in the middle of the 19th century, when charitable gambling, and more particularly, lotteries, became quite common on the territory of Canada, Ontario included. Anything other than that was prohibited under the gambling laws in Ontario. The only activity that was not considered illegal was horse race betting. ![]() It included laws that made any game of chance illegal. Things were not looking good on the gambling front in Ontario when in 1874, the province passed the Criminal Code. ![]()
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