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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。
6 h: |) ?3 ^9 s, m# h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! 2 ^# Q2 M0 i, z! H' @# i0 F4 @: k- V
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.: e- i1 Q4 j$ X: P
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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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7 N4 @0 W/ D k/ D% t$ q7 CCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011., U5 c1 U% M& n& B2 w& O: S
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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.7 Y5 K" h" Z* m
/ I: G6 |5 s3 G. g k, C0 ]# IEdmonton 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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0 G3 H H% D% c7 C5 E+ K"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."% G9 v2 b4 a* ^
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