Hundreds of people are still without power after a heavy rainstorm blew through the Greater Toronto Area over the weekend.

Toronto Hydro crews have been working since Saturday night to restore power to about 16,000 people. As of Monday morning, about 700 homes around the city were still without electricity.

A spokesperson for the company could not say when full power would be restored.

Thunderstorms swept through much of Ontario and parts of Quebec, downing power lines and trees and damaging some homes in the Ottawa region.

At one point, about 40,000 Hydro One customers living in rural Ontario were without power.

In Toronto, winds gusted up to 115 kilometres per hour at Pearson International Airport, the strongest gusts since a blizzard that hit the city in 1978, according to Environment Canada meteorologist Arnold Ashton.

No one was killed in the storm but emergency crews dealt with dozens of injuries.

Michael Yang was pulling out of a mall parking lot when a pole collapsed on his car. He is currently in hospital recovering from fractures.

Ontario Conservative leadership candidate Christine Elliott was also caught in the storm. She was in a plane heading home to Oshawa from Windsor when the aircraft found itself in the eye of the storm. The plane made an emergency landing in Welland.