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, A8 q, @% e1 l/ C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。
, F2 {" R/ d5 T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! 5 X* T0 }% V3 M: V8 [: r5 Q1 c
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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.3 r8 u& X1 z# V9 s# ]6 K" @
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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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; N% ?0 t/ J! x, kCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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- o0 o4 Z; \! M0 D; }# 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.; A; l; ]4 v3 p& R
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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." P A; b/ r% x7 c f0 ?! k
* |6 |; e/ z; v0 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."+ P r5 \) c/ s# h
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