Yeah, for sure it's all over Ontario, but most especially rural-anywhere, but urban in the north, too.
When I was 16 I did an exchange week where I spent a week in Walkerton (SW of Owen Sound) and that was the first time I ever spent time here. The 'youse' and 'seen' thing was something I noticed right away. Nothing like that growing up in the 80s in rural Alberta near Edmonton, though it might be there now.
... tangent... There's also a subtle but noticeable pronounciation difference between southern Alberta and central Alberta, which I've heard language specialists mention. Central Alberta was more heavily settled by German, Ukrainian and British populations (in order of increasing ratio); southern Alberta had a more heavily American influence, people who came over from North Dakota & Idaho, etc (like my great grandmother on my mother's side). Obviously that has blurred in the decades since, but it had a long term impact on both politics and language. Where I grew up west of Edmonton, a sizable quantity of the kids in my school were only second generation Ukrainian, with their parents often still speaking it at home.
Anyways, the English linguistic situation in Canada is a lot more diverse than it appears at first
When I was 16 I did an exchange week where I spent a week in Walkerton (SW of Owen Sound) and that was the first time I ever spent time here. The 'youse' and 'seen' thing was something I noticed right away. Nothing like that growing up in the 80s in rural Alberta near Edmonton, though it might be there now.
... tangent... There's also a subtle but noticeable pronounciation difference between southern Alberta and central Alberta, which I've heard language specialists mention. Central Alberta was more heavily settled by German, Ukrainian and British populations (in order of increasing ratio); southern Alberta had a more heavily American influence, people who came over from North Dakota & Idaho, etc (like my great grandmother on my mother's side). Obviously that has blurred in the decades since, but it had a long term impact on both politics and language. Where I grew up west of Edmonton, a sizable quantity of the kids in my school were only second generation Ukrainian, with their parents often still speaking it at home.
Anyways, the English linguistic situation in Canada is a lot more diverse than it appears at first