In Newfoundland, many settlers came from England starting in the 1500s. They settled around isolated bays and coves. Many an outport had settlers all from one region in England, while the next cove a few miles over -- but unaccessible -- would have a population from a totally different area. And due their isolation, the languages did not evolve as they did like in England, Canada, America, i.e. areas with more outside contact; they stayed more static. Even now, some Newfoundland dialects employ older English regional grammars and vocabularies: use of "ye" to adress more than one person; use of 3rd person singular for all present tense verbs; use of "bes" as an intensive for present tense "to be"; etc etc.
Unfortunately, this insularity was undermined by access to North American TV.
Now, b'ys, I be's gutfoundered, so I'se got me a dirty big feed o' lobscouse, luh.
J.