OWEN SOUND, Ont. -- Around 100,000 Hydro One customers remain without power in southern Ontario following the ice storm early Friday.
Residents of the community of Holstein will likely have to go without hydro service until sometime Sunday.
The town of Minto is also expected to be without electricity Saturday.
Hydro One estimates a lot of customers in Grey-Bruce will be without power until Sunday night.
North Perth has declared a state of emergency and officials have set up warming centres for residents to escape the cold.
Thousands of Quinte residents also are without power as residents in Quinte West, Brighton, Frankford, Stirling and north of Belleville remain affected by the outage.
Hydro One estimates power will be restored in those areas between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday.
The utility said more than 300 power line poles were toppled by the storm, and that some 1,200 of its staff are working to get power back on with assistance from local distribution companies.
"Every available worker is out today working to safely restore power to our customers and our communities as quickly as possible," operations and maintenance vice president Len McMillan said in a release.
The utility said that Tweed, Peterborough, Trenton and Orangeville were among the hardest areas hit, with more than 10,000 customers affected in each municipality.
