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You know you're living in Canada's "Banana Belt" when it's almost the end of November, a handful of golf courses are still open, the temperature is spring-like, and "landscape lighting" crews can check the Christmas decorations on St. Clair's "island evergreens" without having to brush any snow off the limbs.