The power is still out for a little under 4,000 Quebec homes and businesses after freezing rain swept across the south of the province on Boxing Day.
At the height of the outages on Monday evening, around 17,000 Hydro Quebec customers were without electricity.
Freezing rain causes extensive power outages because it leads to an icy build-up on trees and branches, which are weighed down and may snap, taking out power lines.
According to Hydro Quebec spokesperson Mathieu Rouy, warmer weather after the freezing rain means crews can move fasteer and that further outages are not expected.
"The water that was frozen on the branches melted so what was supposed to break already broke.
Rouy said power should bne restored to all customers by around 5 p.m. Tuesday, some 24 hours after outages began.
Most remaining outages - around 2,000 of them - are in the Laurentians, which Rouy explained is due to rougher terrain making accvess to broken power lines more difficult.
"In some more remote areas our crews sometimes need to access the lines with snowmobiles and then they realize that with strong winds yesterday, up to 90 kilometres per hour, poles sometimes need to be replaced."
Rouy said that Hydro Quebec clears branches around power lines annualy to reduce outages in the case of winter storms, but that it would be impossible to completely remove all trees near power lines.
"The only way we can prevent such damage to the grid and power outages would be to remove all the trees near the distribution system, which won't happen."