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nope Clarence and Rockland is 20 km away from me, in Ontario. We have a lot of Franco Ontarians in Eastern Ontario, I would say 50% plus, certainly her accent is typical for the region....by the way Franco Ontarians are very proud of their heritage and culture and to confuse them with Quebecers, to them, is an insult
I wasn’t trying to insult them. I thought most Franco-Ontarians spoke “unaccented” English like the other guy.
As different as they sound, both of those accents (when speaking in English) are commonly found among francophones who are native to the Clarence-Rockland area.
The variations among people from the same place can be explained by stuff like family dynamics and differing levels of exposure to English in school, at work, etc.
I would say though that the lady's accent is on its way out as the area becomes increasingly a full-blown Ottawa suburb.
Already once you get maybe 15 minutes east of Rockland to a place like Orleans, there aren't any francophones under 60 who are native to the area and who have strong French accents like that in English.
This is also true of francophones from central Ottawa itself.
Where I grew up in central Georgia, there was a distinction between cot and caught with local southerners. Caught was pronounced something like "cawt", which is similar sounding to the stereotypical pronunciation in the south of "dawg" for dog. However, I notice this distinction less and less, as so many people across the state hail from somewhere else, which influences all dialects.
I don't know if it is the same in Canada? But, America is a highly mobile society. The average American relocates, nearly always to someplace else in America, once every 5 years. Regional accents are slowly disappearing as a result. If you live in Georgia or Alabama, there is a very good chance your neighbor is from Ohio or Texas. In towns where the 4,000 colleges and universities are located, such movement is the norm.
To me, Canadian speech (likely from the area from Ontario through Alberta, is nearly identical to Upper Midwest American speech. There are a few distinct pronunciations for certain words, but people from the Upper Midwest and from central Canada, if they worked on losing a few distinct ways of saying certain words, would have interchangeable speech characteristics. Maybe that is why there are a significant number of Canadian broadcasters working in USA?
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