Canadian Rise is an interesting feature of North American English that affects how certain diphthongs are raised before certain voiceless stops. Unlike common American opinions that Canadians sound strange while speaking English, Canadian Raising is a different vowel shift than the common Canadian vowel shift that allows most Americans to hear the dialect difference between most of the American English and the dialects of Canadian English. How the Canadian Raise occurred today and where it came from, brings to light a very interesting process in how the vowel characteristics of the Great Vowel Shift arise and how this change in vowel pronunciation had its influence in Canada and in the United States. United States today. There will be an exploration into the details of what Canadian Raising is and how it is produced under what circumstances. A connection will be made with a historical aspect of English on the origin of vowel raising tendencies. This historical aspect will examine the vowels used in Britain and how the separation of populations would have had the effects of the Great Vowel Shift in the speakers who eventually arrived in eastern Canada. The spread of vowel features observed in Canadian Raising will be explained in the spread of Canadian English as Canadian English influences parts of the upper Midwest in the United States. By connecting the historical context of this vowel shift, a link will be made to the present by explaining how Canadian Raising has affected the Canadian dialect of English and how this shift is spreading to parts of the United States. Canadian Raising is the process of a change or raising of certain diphthongs before voiceless cons...... middle of paper ......interesting links to older forms of Middle English and linking aspects of English Canadian and certain dialects of American English to certain small sound changes in isolated parts of England, as a small linguistic change can link the Fens of England to the Canadians of today. Although Canadian Raising is unique and an important aspect of Canadian English, Canadian Raising affects several different dialects in the United States. From many different parts of New England to the upper Midwest, Canadian Raising is affecting diphthongs in spoken language in different ways, depending on the region and the speaker. It is unclear how Canadian Raising will be used or modified in the future, but depending on how many people continue to change the diphthong in their speech, then we will be able to understand the true origins of this interesting phenomenon..