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8 p3 y8 v6 j, P' D$ x5 b, x% U4 ?0 m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。! t: ~' t1 R; J3 C# O: g
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! # [# v3 x; M6 X8 ^6 G
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3 i' |( _- F z; z* J, t$ yEdmonton'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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/ B6 x9 o" `1 @" }0 V* g7 lStatistics 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.2 A- ^, S' x1 g1 e$ E$ w5 s) N+ Y. ~
3 [6 }( A7 i6 D+ p/ c9 |' ]9 j- BCanada'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.
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, G; a+ [# n o' i& WEdmonton 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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"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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