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: F, b' Y8 f0 @- M1 e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。9 F6 f% H i$ {
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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3 H. ~0 t' W- L% s" h- u9 \( ?Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.: q& B3 J! t# V3 {7 E" k
0 s; S! L- c, d& KStatistics 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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K& g; w3 Q4 `1 A% aCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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1 p1 o7 l- N: k& W4 tThe 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.5 S# d/ u; B9 j
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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.
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& ?8 O( ~2 p) e3 f# f8 Y4 O"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."# ^7 z" P" z+ N2 u+ ?
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