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3 b; X/ ]4 W! y F: {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。" z+ a7 h F) \$ {
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! ' e8 M) C4 z( y& o
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4 M+ E6 L2 P5 ?, b' R5 F& K+ _/ lEdmonton'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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# A* x# i& _6 F4 D# P& e$ `Statistics 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* t5 N1 W& P/ R8 ?
7 b2 W/ l! ]7 D1 F( z; q3 Q* }Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.7 O- w* S% v3 N# l4 u5 B
$ o, P( b1 D* M3 z7 ?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.+ z, G, K8 e( j
# @) N! B [( o, T"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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