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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。
* {$ I2 Z+ P- d8 X* z$ O. }6 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!
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: u7 `3 p1 L: x+ }5 ^ S3 i" rEdmonton'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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( r5 r# ~. \/ T. {+ l8 jStatistics 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.2 L- B) D& h" Z; F$ M* d
* @( c% s7 |: [5 L" q7 ~& GCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.+ `7 |$ @3 R! @5 T. h- k# s5 r
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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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$ M1 g9 h6 x* ~3 n; C2 w& ?% Q+ QEdmonton 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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& a, R# A$ G! u, G2 o2 }' f"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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