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5 e f, s _3 N1 s, w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。
+ i M0 N6 e3 Y2 V, A# 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! ) L& j. f. X5 r, l% W2 y4 P
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6 h& m& ~5 [: ]0 V7 t$ R0 r' r! XEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.& O. a* m) w$ Y/ X; T
4 O2 L5 W {' O2 VStatistics 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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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.: r- v+ o4 X. Y" P
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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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( k) v$ D- ~8 B4 k# ]' A4 TEdmonton 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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' N9 k" D$ M9 _& @% I, C* g7 a8 S"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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