Posted by Adam Quinan on August 12, 2008 at 17:13:53 user Adam.
In Reply to: AR and dialects; was Re: English (was Bad Spelling) posted by Ed Kiser on August 12, 2008 at 15:49:31:
Apart from some areas of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia there were very few English speakers in what is now Canada until the late 17th century when the Hudson Bay Company (mostly staffed by Scots and Orkneymen) started to set up their trading posts in what is now northern Ontario and Manitoba.
So I don't think there is much (if any) vestige of Elizabethan speech in modern Canadian accents.