Hundreds of thousands of people across Ontario were still without power Monday after freezing rain coated swaths of the province with thick layers of ice, with outages expected to last in some areas as storm cleanup continues.

Over 300,000 Canadians faced power outages in parts of Ontario on Sunday as an ice storm pummeled the region over the weekend, according to electricity provider Hydro One.

A major ice storm struck a large part of southern Ontario over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of people remained without power, and schools were closed in some areas by Monday morning, March 31. Several states of emergency were declared,