Resources

If you are looking for more information on Canadian English we have compiled some relevant resources:

Encyclopedia Article

•  Canadian English (article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, open access).

Publications

• The Atlas of North American English (Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2006).
• The Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
• The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador.
• The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
• The Dictionary of Cape Breton English.
• The Dictionary of Newfoundland English (second link).
• The Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English.
• The English Language in Canada (Boberg 2010).
• The Guide to Canadian English Usage.
• The North American Regional Vocabulary Survey (Boberg 2005).
• The Survey of Canadian English (Scargill and Warkentyne 1972).
• Newfoundland and Labrador English (Clarke 2010).
• Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (Orkin 1971/2015):
• Statistics Canada federal government census data on Canadian languages, including English:
  • Resource 1
  • Resource 2
  • Resource 3

University research sites featuring current research on Canadian English

• The Canadian Language Museum at York University, Toronto
• The Languages in the Prairies Project at the University of Manitoba
• The Sociolinguistics Laboratory at Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
• The Sociolinguistics Lab at the University of Ottawa
• The Sociolinguistics/Language Variation and Change Lab at the University of Toronto
• The Sociolinguistics Research Lab at the University of Victoria
• SPADE - Speech Across Dialects of English (international research project across five British and North American universities, including McGill in Canada)
• The Strathy Language Unit at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON (research center dedicated to Canadian English):

Popular media

• This is how Canada talks (article on The 10 and 3)
• The Canadian English Accent (film by Jim DeLuca of Jimiticus)
• Origins of the Canadian English Accent (film by Jim DeLuca of Jimiticus)