$5M lottery win for Surrey woman with \u2018more flexibility now\u2019<\/p>\n
Published 10:54 am Monday, August 24, 2026<\/p>\n
A Surrey lottery winner of $5 million was on Vancouver Island when she learned of being a multi-millionaire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was at the Country Grocer on Cedar [in Nanaimo] when I found out I won,\u201d recalled Jane D., as identified by BCLC on Monday, Aug. 24.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know how to react. The cashier was almost more ecstatic than me. My husband waited for me in the car to bring out groceries, then I told him. He didn\u2019t believe me at first, then I showed him the validation slip and he counted the zeroes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jane won the $5-million Classic Jackpot prize in the Aug. 8 Lotto 6\/49 draw with a ticket bought at Rexall on Willow Street in Chemainus.<\/p>\n
Plans for the money include home renovations, contributing to investments and future travel.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very exciting. I have more flexibility now,\u201d Jane says.<\/p>\n
Last January BCLC began sharing only the first name and last-name initial for all lottery winners, in an apparent move to protect privacy.<\/p>\n
So far in 2026, B.C. lottery players have redeemed more than $50 million in winnings from Lotto 6\/49, according to BCLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"$5M lottery win for Surrey woman with \u2018more flexibility now\u2019 Published 10:54 am Monday, August 24, 2026 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-870089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}