By The Canadian Press

Woman found dead in Montreal-area home without power during extreme cold

Jan 26, 2026 | 10:53 AM

MONTREAL — The Quebec coroner will investigate the death of a woman whose body was found Sunday evening inside a Montreal-area home that had been without power for more than a day.

It was fire department officials who found the woman’s body during a door-to-door wellness check on the on-island town of Montreal West, where temperatures felt as cold as -35 C over the weekend.

A few thousand customers on the Island of Montreal remain without electricity after equipment at a substation broke on Saturday morning.

At the height of the blackouts about 15,000 clients were without power in the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough and neighbouring towns of Côte Saint-Luc and Montreal West.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 26, 2026.

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