Quebec

19th April 2024

January 2023

"25 years to that dreadful day and we have gathered here to discuss more about it. We have Suzanne King who has studied all about it and further consequences", says Natalie - the host, " Over to you Mam!"

"Twenty-five years ago, the rain began in what would become the 1998 ice storm that eventually left millions of Quebecers in the dark, some for over a month. It was one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history, and many still have vivid memories of those cold and difficult days and nights." Said Suzanne.



Suzanne King is a Full Professor (Retired) in the Department of Psychiatry, as well as a Principal Investigator at the Douglas Research Centre. Her work focuses on five prospective longitudinal studies of children who were exposed to maternal stress in utero as the result of a natural disaster: the Quebec ice storm of 1998; the IOWA floods of 2008; Queensland floods in Australia in 2011; the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray; and the flooding in Houston following the 2017 Hurricane Harvey. She is also currently involved in two studies of prenatal stress from COVID-19 in Canada and Australia.

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