Thousands of Canadians woke up in the dark on Christmas Day as power outages caused by ferocious winter conditions persisted across Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswickand threw holiday travel into chaos.
In a tweet Sunday early evening, Via Rail said it was cancelling all Boxing Day trains on its Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes due to ongoing complications from a train derailment on Christmas Eve.
"We borrowed a generator, but it's only capable of keeping a little heater running for the whole house," Burse said in an interview."Our animals are freezing, though. We have two parrots, a budgie and a bearded dragon that needs heat."Port Colborne is about 40 kilometres south of Niagara Falls, Ont., and the town declared a state of emergency on Saturday morning, echoing similar declarations in its neighbouring communities of Wainfleet and Fort Erie.
"There are some ditches that are a little deep, and people have driven right into them because they couldn't see last night, I guess," he said."Cars are still sitting right in the middle of the road … it's going to be a couple of days before they get anything going here." Canadian Niagara Power, meanwhile, said there has been"widespread" outages throughout Fort Erie and Port Colborne, and that approximately 14,000 customers without power as of Sunday morning, and 9,600 customers without power as of 4 p.m.
The wintry conditions between Ontario and Quebec wreaked havoc on rail lines, with Via Rail announcing Saturday evening that a CN train derailment had cancelled all Christmas Day trains between Toronto and Ottawa and Toronto and Montreal.
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