For most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, that's a friendly question. Maybe you've heard it from holiday visitors wearing disguises. If not, you probably know it ...

ST. JOHN’S, NL—We are an androgynous, gender-bending spectacle, disguised, not costumed, faces obscured by white veils and grotesque masks. My 40D red bra is strapped over a couple of vintage shirts ...

WHATEVER your beliefs and however you celebrate, Christmas is a deep, highly peculiar repository of old traditions drawn from ...

Newfoundlanders carry the provincial flag in the Dec. 9 Mummers Parade through Bowring Park in St. John’s. Mummery is a tradition with English and Irish roots where people don disguises and go house ...

Photographer Adam Coish grew up mummering in Labrador City. For most Canadians, his shots offer a window into another world. Every year around Christmas, Canadians living in Newfoundland and Labrador ...

This archival illustration depicts mummering in St. John's. (The Rooms Provincial Archives - image credit) This archival illustration depicts mummering in St. John's. This archival illustration ...

Sarah Ferguson and her dog Frank stand in traditional mummer dress in St. John's, Newfoundland. Mummering involves getting dressed up in disguise using anything one can scavenge -- curtains, ...

There’s a wonderful strange Christmas tradition in Canada’s Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Known as mummering (or jannying), it’s an ancient tradition. A relatively recent phenomenon, ...

Most Canadians probably know mummering as a tradition unique, in this country, to Newfoundland and Labrador, and also parts of Nova Scotia. But at least one city south of the border has a similarly ...