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: R+ M: m% _4 g9 t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。+ _% R" @! p" |$ \% T) n% a. C
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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8 D( I e5 g! h/ U( n9 `5 P4 kEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.8 \6 m. [& j" }; y! h
5 V' N3 X7 l8 S% }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.* q9 w5 G: `: @) M& |; Z
* e, m7 W8 N( \* ?Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.+ H( u5 Z1 A2 \ P5 }9 q
& }5 o. s/ e0 c3 L- R' XThe 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.# @# `0 k/ i6 ^; [* [7 ?# H- j
' n3 e- @) _ ~1 p' gEdmonton 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.
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/ R" N8 E; |% |5 Q1 G" |& s"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."
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