Two Newfoundlanders and a Cape Bretoner

I've been fortunate enough to meet THREE true, honest to goodness East coasters this week.  On Monday I heard a voice in the distance... my first thought was HOME.  Not REALLY home, but close enough.  My cashier was a Newfoundlander.  It was so nice to hear an East coast accent :)  By the end of our chat, she was asking me, in true Newfoundlander-style, to come back some day and meet her for lunch!  Today at work someone asked me where my "drawl" was from, to which I of course replied that I'm from Halifax and we don't have an accent or drawl!  Turns out he is a Cape Bretoner.  Tonight my bus driver started talking to me...another Newfoundlander!

So all that to say, even though the title sounds like the start of a bad joke, it isn't.  It was nice to hear some "almost home" accents.

Oh, I also learned this week that Ontario is referred to as "Eastern Canada" out here in the West... they looked at me funny when I referred to it as Upper Canada...hmmmm