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# M% M% A H! K. @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。
3 r: |9 }8 d4 W$ a7 l( F! C# C2 Y0 n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! / Z% B& z: m. m6 W
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! A1 O6 e! B+ D& b& g4 ]Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth., x) W0 h0 f, q3 Z
+ |, E1 S. e0 \% X& X, O5 x! J2 \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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* Z! }: a7 n+ G3 b8 JCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.) x' a# f1 g' r X8 Z" @
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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.& W: X5 K9 i& Z* t2 G" i8 i
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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.
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) f. _, }! I9 Z6 E, D o5 x* ^"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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