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% z; J& x& g7 ^/ s- _* e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 J) p. x a9 r- @) e9 k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! , N8 g; t3 {4 k5 Y) m/ g! z' N( Y- X
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2 P6 }( _" [2 s6 JEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.7 w1 d. G1 ?' c% R
# v2 R' q$ o% ~3 p/ ?$ J8 wStatistics 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.- J! Y3 C0 G: i' |+ n" g
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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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.) ^6 g! o$ q! x( w
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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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0 h# e) N$ m Q4 e* d, ]3 C2 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."
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