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; T* r2 v6 p+ `6 B, C% R; P$ h统计表明最近五年(2006-2011)的人口增长率,卡尔加里12.6%,埃德蒙德12.1%,成为全加拿大人口增长最快的两个城市。
! a4 T7 f f3 M5 ]: G埃德蒙顿2011年人口已达81.2万。这个被我们昵称为屯子的地方,至少得改名叫“大屯子”了!
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0 x8 @! V6 P ? w) \Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.; j7 V6 |' e4 g% N, V
+ ]! g* h5 m, R& \$ J/ u( ^Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that Alberta's population increased at twice the national average, while results of the 2011 federal census showed the Edmonton area's population grew at a faster rate than any other metro region in Canada from 2006 to 2011, with the exception of Calgary.
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.# N4 h* W! x' B! L1 Y+ v" `1 h( U
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The capital region - including municipalities such as Beaumont, Spruce Grove and Fort Saskatchewan - grew from slightly more than a million people in 2006 to nearly 1.2 million people in 2011. That's a 12percent increase in the five-year span measured by the census.' ] _6 J& r4 e( w$ u
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Edmonton alone added nearly 82,000 people in that time, bringing the population to 812,200. Originally, the city's chief economist John Rose thought Edmonton might see a slight slowdown from the impressive 9.6-per-cent growth it reported in the 2006 census. Instead, he said, strong job numbers in the past year helped push it to 11.2 per cent.1 d9 s6 G# f& o0 j8 Q
( d5 [0 G7 E/ i8 W"What we have here is a very good news story," Rose said. "It suggests the City of Edmonton is no longer just a place you go to for a job, work that job for a few years and then you go on to something else when the boom is over."7 J1 K: l$ r6 j0 D5 m: t% A- c
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