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+ N6 Z% s& ` m0 |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。
8 {% ]+ c( ]2 X. e) {- a5 r* W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! : {7 a8 s# ~( h( i( U4 ?
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Edmonton'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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- Z! H u8 [% {7 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.( t( w8 ^; j) ?% e& g0 t: w1 x
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 f( W$ {9 m' d( h+ y
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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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0 p* d6 k& @/ E1 U+ S9 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. O4 u. J) y" j/ X
+ @2 B; k/ o- Q"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."! b, e' q, V( g7 H" k. h. Z
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