(Montreal) An 18-year-old student from Ontario, who was playing the lottery for the first time, did not miss her first try: she won a jackpot of $48 million, also becoming the youngest winner ever. a pot of this magnitude in the country.
Juliette Lamour, a student from Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario, explained during the check presentation on Friday, that she bought her first lottery ticket at the suggestion of her grandfather.
“He said to me: you just turned 18, go buy yourself a ticket, try your luck,” she said, adding that once in the store, she had to call her father for him. ask how to play.
OLG, Ontario’s lottery corporation, revealed the identity of the only jackpot winner of an early January draw this weekend, stating that Juliette Lamour “is the youngest winner in the history of the lottery in Canada to have won such a large jackpot”.
She hadn’t immediately checked her ticket and thought nothing of it until she heard her colleagues say that the winning ticket had been purchased in Sault Ste Marie. A colleague then offered to check her ticket on the OLG app and she struggled to realize what was happening to her in the face of the avalanche of zeros on the amount of her winnings.
As a biology student, she intends to pursue her studies wisely this year and plan a trip with her family this summer. To invest her money, she can count on the help of her father, a financial planner.