Jillian MacLaughlin the first ever Big brother Canada winner will receive: $100,000, along with a Chevy Trax and a $25,000 gift card to The Brick.

[May 2, 2013 Mississauga, ON Canada]  The first ever winner of Big Brother Canada was crowned tonight in a special two hour finale. The winner was Jillian MacLaughlin a 27 year old school teacher from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

Jillian won in 3 - 4 vote, but not without controversy. The winning vote was cast by Topaz Brady, who intended to vote for her friend Gary Levy, however she didn't understand the rules and thought she was voting to evict Jillian, and not for the win.  When it came time to count the votes, Topaz leaped up and said, "Someone switched this, please don't do this to me."  Topaz s went up on the stage with host Arisa Cox. 

Arisa told the 27 year old part-time dental hygienist and student that is was too late once the votes are cast, "Please sit down," Arisa urged her.

Topaz said she cannot sit down, "Please don't do this to me!"

Arisa told Topaz and the audience, "We are going to a commercial and work this out."

When they returned from a brief break, Arisa said that everything is recorded and they'll check to see if there were any mistakes made."  They played the video back showing Topaz voting for Jillian. "We were really, really clear," Arisa said apologetically.

There's some more on the story from back-stage in an article by Cassandra Szklarski of The Canadian Press that you can read here.

We had a blast covering the first ever season of Big Brother Canada, in fact I thought t was better than BBUSA. If you didn't watch, you missed a great cast and great production, you can check it all out on my Big Brother Canada Page .