Canadian celebrating lottery win by buying mom a house in Guyana

For most lottery winners, the best part of a big win is being able to share it with loved ones, and that’s exactly what it was like for one generous Canadian winner.

Javier B. is a 35-year-old pastry chef who lives in Mississauga, Ont. The lottery player said that the most he’s ever won before was $800 on an Instant ticket. But he never could have expected that he’d win such a huge prize.

One day, he stopped at a convenience store where he purchased an Instant Poker Night ticket for $10.

“I was at home when I played my ticket and checked it using the OLG app,” he recalled.

To his surprise, he discovered that he had won the game’s top prize — he was now $250,000 richer.

“It was so overwhelming, I felt sick! I had to lie down,” he shared.

Afterwards, he said he went downstairs to share the news with his grandma and to ask her to verify what he was seeing.

“I said, ‘Grandma, am I dreaming? I won $250,000,'” he said, beaming. “We were both so excited!”

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While at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto to claim his cheque, he said that he already has plans for his windfall: to invest his money and buy a new car.

“I’d like to learn to drive a car in Canada and get my driver’s licence so that I could drive from coast to coast,” Javier said.

But he also wants to share his winnings with his family — he said he plans to buy his mom a new house back home in Guyana.

The winning ticket was purchased at Southdown Convenience on Southdown Road in Mississauga.

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