A financially struggling single mom in British Columbia has won $1.5 million in an instant-scratch lottery, bringing her the kind of relief from daily demands most can only hope for.

BCLC, the province's Crown corporation responsible for lotteries and gaming, said Jacqueline Davenport of Kelowna, B.C., won the jackpot from a Scratch & Win ticket.

"I was just running out to get french fries and decided to stop to purchase a Scratch & Win ticket," Davenport said in a statement issued by BCLC late Friday.

"I went home to eat and then I scratched my ticket. I matched the gem and I knew I had won something, and when I realized it was the jackpot, I came running out of my room. My daughter thought something was wrong and I had to reassure her everything was OK."

Davenport is a mother of two who said she had been working "seven days a week for over a year to make ends meet, but the ends were not meeting."

However, she added: "I always believed that one day I was going to win big. It finally happened."