At 5:16 p.m., Hydro-Québec reported 62,321 customers without power in the Montreal region, almost all of them in the West Island.
Power outages left tens of thousands of customers in the West Island in the dark on Monday evening.
At 5:16 p.m., Hydro-Québec reported 62,321 customers without power in the Montreal region, almost all of them in St-Laurent, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, Kirkland, Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève.
There was no immediate word about the cause of the outage, but Hydro-Québec’s website lists “equipment failure” with service expected to resume around 5:45 p.m.