TORONTO - If you happened to buy your ticket for last night's Lotto 649 draw at an outlet in Mississauga, Ont., you should really check your numbers — you could be very wealthy.
A single winning ticket for the 64$ million grand prize — the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian lottery history — was sold in the community just west of Toronto.
There's no word yet whether it belongs to a single person or to a group of people.
A guaranteed prize of $1 million was also offered in last night's draw, and it went to a ticket holder in Quebec.
Southern Ontario saw plenty of other big winners from last night's draw: There were four secondary prize winning tickets worth $116,915.80 sold in Ontario – two in Toronto, one in Kitchener and one in the Barrie area. Plus, two ENCORE tickets worth $100,000 each were sold in Hamilton and the Peterborough area.
The previous Canadian lottery record was $63.4-million for a 6-49 draw in April, 2013.
That pot was split among four ticketholders, who each banked nearly $16-million.
As lottery fever gripped Canada ahead of last night's draw convenience stores and lottery kiosks across the country were jammed with customers dreaming of striking it rich.
This win sets a new record for the biggest single Canadian lottery prize ever won. The previous record for a single prize was set just a few weeks ago, when a ticket purchased in Ontario won $60 million in the September 25 LOTTO MAX draw.
