1) Winter tradition 
Mummering is a Christmas time house-visiting tradition and is still practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador. On June 25, 1861 an `Act to make further provisions for the prevention of Nuisances` was introduced in response to the death of Issac Mercer in Bay Roberts, NL. Mercer had been murdered by a group of masked mummers on December 28, 1860. Th.....