In Quebec and Ontario, hundreds of thousands of households remained in the dark Friday after Wednesday’s powerful spring ice storm downed trees and brought down power lines, leaving three men dead in the two provinces.
Police say a third person to die in a vicious ice storm was a man in Saint-Joseph-Du-Lac, Que., who was running a generator in his garage.
Insp. Jean Philippe Labbé says the man’s wife found him unconscious in the garage, and the 75-year-old died after being taken to hospital in Ste-Eustache.
He says firefighters determined carbon monoxide levels in the garage were 20 times the norm. Earlier, Premier François Legault told reporters that a man in Ste-Eustache had died after bringing his barbecue indoors, but Labbé says that was a misunderstanding.