A Waterville Public Works snowplow clears Mayflower Hill Drive as a major ice storm rolls through Wa

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Ontario's premier said Sunday that she had talked to many mayors of communities affected by the storm to offer provincial support. She said the province was going to provide tree harvesters to some communities to help crews clear away downed trees.
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By late Sunday, the storm had mostly moved out of Ontario and was hitting the Atlantic provinces with freezing rain reported in Fredericton and snow in Charlottetown. Freezing fairmont hotel vancouver rain warnings were out for parts of Atlantic Canada.
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At one point in January 1998, almost 10 per cent of the country's population -- about three million people -- were without power when four days of intermittent freezing rain entombed parts of eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and western Quebec.
Toronto shut down streetcar service along with parts of the subway system, while regional commuter trains were delayed or suspended. The city's giant Yorkdale fairmont hotel vancouver Shopping Centre also lost power for a period Sunday.
Matthew Shields spent Saturday night in Toronto after his flight from Saint John, N.B., to his mother's home in London, Ont., was cancelled. Facing a 30-hour delay, he was instead trying Sunday to find a flight to Sarnia, Ont.
A tree rests on a power line on Heath Street fairmont hotel vancouver in Toronto after an ice storm caused havoc knocking down trees and power lines in much of the city on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
A Waterville Public Works snowplow clears Mayflower Hill Drive as a major ice storm rolls through Waterville, Maine, on Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 2013. (The Central Maine Morning Sentinel / Michael G. Seamans)
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