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, v# ~4 {$ p7 x/ f9 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。
) x9 P4 h( h5 u) P c. p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 }! |/ Z6 F& L1 U" J
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( Y3 V: ?+ o9 ~, D8 R6 gEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.3 R1 y- `# r4 k
! M/ Z9 I( b9 e1 v5 E1 pStatistics 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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% B( ~( n+ F7 R& d4 `6 ECanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011., r! i+ r' Z5 y; J7 s2 Z
% F! V" a+ `, v' W" h$ u. x2 GThe 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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+ y3 U: p$ e9 \( }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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"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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