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: H, I/ c, K. a0 P1 q% T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。
5 ~1 R" G$ r. B" z; e; K4 M9 y" ?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 j2 E2 }+ ]# U' I
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5 k& q( _" k5 d# X1 iEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth. b, W9 F0 l8 t0 ?
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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.
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, n4 y1 G3 A/ N$ }( eCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.6 R, z: Q4 m6 D/ ?8 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.7 f7 d- m% G, A1 D; c8 u7 r
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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./ d y# N4 z( {: Q8 ^& O) m& h" @# t
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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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