Many people on the southern Avalon Peninsula are of Irish descent. At Christmas they enjoy going to someone's house for a good scoff. A scoff is a big cooked meal of vegetables and salt beef. They also enjoy an old-fashioned time and Chrismas concerts.

Conne River is a community near Bay d'Espoir. Micmac Indians live here. Early Micmacs celebrated Christmas by cutting three pieces of hardwood on Christmas Eve. The people would get together and burn the pieces of wood they had cut the year before. Then the men would bring in the three new pieces of wood. The people would offer prayers in the Micmac language.

Greenapond is a small island in the Bonavista Bay. A causeway joins it to the island of Newfoundland. Many people here still carry on the old Newfoundland Christmas tradition called mummering. Mummers dress in all kinds of costumes and go from house to house. They sing and dance and have a snack.

Many people on the Port au Port Peninsula are of French ancestry. They go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning they open gifts from Pere Noel. Pere Noel is french for Father Christmas. The Christmas morning meal is called reveillon. Reveillon means let's wake up.