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With no fast food restaurants or big box stores, the bicycle and pedestrian friendly Cowichan Bay has become North America’s first Citta Slow – Slow City.
Cowichan Bay, a small Canadian town, has become the first Slow City in North America. Towns or cities have to meet certain criteria to gain slow city certification – pedestrian walkways, no big box or chain stores, a population of less than 50 thousand. Producer Don Genova visited Cowichan Bay and found a community proud of its newly gained status.