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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。- a1 h) @3 S7 O( b; @' w5 o0 u
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! 4 ^4 E9 X( M! H! q) A
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0 C2 D2 p) e6 [8 `$ eEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.7 j# a5 ~5 [5 S" i
! v% D7 g% J+ yStatistics 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.* Q* K, K* F8 h
. b$ r7 J- x/ v) T# V" J" QCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.3 M9 b- j7 N& u3 ~2 E4 Q$ F+ S
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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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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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: V) ~! v. o8 ^, p' y. a0 r0 |& g, ~"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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