I'm 6th or 7th generation Canadian, with ancestry in the Yorkshire Dales and the Scottish lowlands. My father, and a lot of my friends, started out in the Maritimes on the east coast, and drifted west looking for work. The maritime provinces used to send fish, coal, and wood to the rest of the country, but these days, the main export is people.

Phrases like "bustin' yer arse" are still current, and recognized on the east coast, and while less common as you go westward, even here in Alberta there are enough folk from 'down East' to preserve the dialects.

Even 'Newfonese' has its adherents in the West. I salt my laguage with bits of the bastardised Irish that is spoken in Newfoundland 'just fer devilment'!