About 10,000 homes were without power on Southern Vancouver Island on Sunday afternoon.
Reports of about two dozen power outages began coming in shortly after 1 p.m, with the majority in the West Shore.
One outage in Sooke affecting 1,450 people was identified as being caused by a downed tree.
An outage had cut power to 3,400 customers in the West Shore since 2:30 p.m.
Most of the outages were still under investigation as of 3 p.m. Sunday.
Customers in North Saanich, Shawnigan Lake, and Galiano Island were also affected.
Power was restored to most of the areas by Sunday night.
