Ontario man wins $40M Lotto Max jackpot after buying 2 tickets for himself, daughter

A retired railway employee from Ontario is $40 million richer from winning the Lotto Max jackpot after purchasing two tickets — one for himself and one for his daughter.

A retired railway employee from Ontario is $40 million richer from winning the Lotto Max jackpot after purchasing two tickets — one for himself and one for his daughter.

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) said 79-year-old Bernard White of Oshawa, Ont., was the jackpot winner from the Feb. 21 draw.

White said he’s been buying two Lotto Max tickets a week for the past couple of years.

“One for me and one for my daughter,” he said. “Before I go to bed, I always tell her to pick one. This time, she picked the wrong one.”

Despite his daughter choosing the losing ticket, White said, “She’s going to be well taken care of.”

“My daughter means a lot to me because, when my (now) late wife and I had her, she was the only child we could have,” White said.

White said his daughter, who wakes up early for work in the morning, alerted him to the draw, saying she thought he had won $40,000 from Lotto Max.

“I looked at her, half asleep, and replied, ‘That’s great! Now we can both pay off our cars,'” he said.