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Mom of 7 wins $5M in Ontario lottery, plans to buy accessible home and a sandwich

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WATCH: A Montreal man is celebrating Christmas early after winning one of the largest lottery jackpots in Canadian history. As Global's Phil Carpenter reports, the 62-year-old father says he plans to spoil his family – Dec 9, 2024

A woman from Waterloo, Ont., plans to buy herself a special sandwich and maybe something bigger after recently becoming a multi-millionaire.

The OLG says that Sarah Nellis, who is a mother of seven, recently won the $5 million top prize while playing a game called Instant Mega.

“I was certainly surprised when I saw that I’d won the top prize,” Nellis told the OLG while she was claiming her bounty.

“I shared the good news with my mom and my kids by sending them a screenshot of the winning message and asking them to check their phones. Everyone was shocked!”

She says the gift came at the right time.

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“This win comes with a sense of relief,” Sarah said with a smile. “It truly feels like a Christmas miracle.”

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Going forward, Nellis told OLG that she plans to buy a new accessible home, more Mega tickets, and a Reuben sandwich from The Daily Grill in Waterloo.

Other big lottery winners across Canada

In December 2024, two people — one from Alberta and one from Quebec — split the $80 million Lotto Max jackpot.

The Quebec winner, a 60-year-old Montreal man, bid farewell to his coworkers with a pizza lunch after winning $40 million due to the split.

According to Loto-Quebec, he went to tell his bosses of the news, and that he’d be retiring earlier than planned. A few days later, he returned to work with a pizza lunch for his colleagues before he said farewell to work for good.

The lucky winner said the money would help secure his family’s financial future. Loto-Quebec said he would also use some of the money for a months-long European trip “making a cherished dream come true”

Before that, eight consecutive winners from Ontario had won the Lotto Max jackpot.

In September the $80 million Lotto Max jackpot was split between two people in two provinces again. A couple from Owen Sound in Ontario got $40 million and a retired gym teacher from Quebec’s Outaouais region got the other $40 million.

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