Canada: Halloween night in 1926, wealthy lawyer and investor Charles Vance Millar died, leaving a will that caused a stir for a decade.

Charles Vance Millar was born on June 28, 1854 in Aylmer, Ontario. He is a famous lawyer and owns his own company in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Millar loves to joke. He used to drop dollars on the sidewalks and hide in the bushes to watch people who hurriedly picked up money and stuffed them in their pockets because they thought no one would see them. He told friends that this pastime was to study human nature.

In 1926, he suddenly died at the age of 73 while meeting with a few associates. He is not married and has no heir to the property.

His will is satirical. He left $ 500 to a deceased butler, leaving a racetrack stake to activists opposed to horse racing. He donated a vacation home in Jamaica to three "disgusted" lawyers on the condition that the three of them live together.

The most prominent provision in the will to change the lives of families in Toronto, causing a media fever that lasted for a decade: his fortune - equivalent to $ 10 million at today's prices - will was given to the mother with the most children in Toronto within 10 years after Millar's death, according to Canada's birth database. If it is a tie, the money will be shared equally among mothers.

No one is clear what Millar's purpose is in making this provision. Some believe that this is the prank he presented before his death to entertain his friends and to challenge the legal system. Others think this is a way to support contraception, by driving attention to uncontrolled births, humiliating authorities and having to legalize birth control.

Initially the media called Millar's will as "monstrous". No one believes it is true. But the newspapers then closely watched the "race" to give birth. The Toronto Daily Star also assigned a reporter to look for pregnant women in the city to deal exclusive coverage.

When Millar died, he did not know that his investments would work. Nor did he know that the Great Depression (the period of global economic recession from 1929 to the end of the 1930s) would make his fortune a "lighthouse" of hope for many families.

On October 31, 1936, exactly 10 years after Millar's death, the competition ended. Judge William Edward Middleton, the eldest of a family of nine, is the final decision maker.

He announced a tie between Annie Kinda Smith, Kathleen Ellen Nagle, Lucy Alice Timleck and Isabel Mary Maclean, each mother giving birth to nine children. Each person received 125,000 USD, about two million USD today. This amount is enough for mothers to buy new houses and pay for their children's education.

There were two mothers who were 10 and 11 times pregnant but their results were not calculated due to stillbirth. However, they still receive a smaller amount than the winners.

Lucy Timleck admitted to reporters that taking care of a large family is not easy. "I think birth control is a wonderful thing," she said.

Kevin Timleck, now 57, lives in Vancouver, is Lucy's youngest son. Kevin said he has more than 100 cousins across the country. While many relatives hold the tradition of Irish Catholics to have many children, Kevin has only two children. "Why? Because no one is offering a reward," he said.