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$ _8 _5 J) t0 I% \5 O& p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。
; Q9 v) z9 x2 M$ C# z3 v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! ! R: p( D1 o! Z! c- [. A* M
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/ v F6 f7 H6 g+ A& b; O JEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.
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# ^& h* r- S) A& {% l9 D! iStatistics 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.% P) L4 G7 ?1 u
0 W0 i; C6 q" _1 {* e0 iCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011., ~0 w. @- \* d& ]; ^( P8 @
) w3 p# u7 U8 [; O2 ~& wThe 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.; `5 U: ?/ P: G& O G
* R v; ]9 @/ C ]: 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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9 P n! l5 x: e. F) T% m5 S; d"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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