A Vancouver resident has plans to purchase a home after becoming a millionaire playing the Lotto 6/49.
Miriam Nacionales stopped at the Dundas Market in Vancouver with her son to check her lottery tickets after realizing she hadn't checked a couple that she'd purchased.
"The [ticket self-scanner] was a bit higher than my eyes, so I was on my tippy-toes and saw lots of zeroes!” she recalled of realizing she'd on the July 1 draw.
The Vancouver mother was in shock and her son even asked, “Are you okay?” She held back telling him the good news for a while, despite “celebrating” inside the store.
After she left, Nacionales' husband was the first person she told. He was “dumbfounded” at the news.
Apart from buying a home, the lucky Vancouverite plans to use some of her winnings to help her family and travel back to her home country in Europe.
She described her big win as "exciting and shocking," adding that she is "very grateful and thankful.”
Nacionales purchased the winning ticket at the London Drugs on East Hastings and Penticton streets in Vancouver.
So far in 2023, B.C. lottery players have redeemed more than $92 million in winnings from Lotto 6/49.
