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, F0 ?8 C6 c$ W( c, ~: U8 S% F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。
) b$ w. L" h7 N" Q, Z% B; D. 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! * x: \3 O3 P* F$ ^* B( f* [
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' }& v; a" I2 }- t8 a, t: T0 m5 b/ OEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.* v4 `- D: Q7 {
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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.. {& T" ~/ X1 i! ~
: u* p0 E9 v( M' x/ }' fThe 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.
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9 N. ^5 @; B+ g( G3 _6 ~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.0 `% Q; H6 l0 Z3 S
6 h! n8 \: w8 ~- Y6 C/ s( G"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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