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; g3 |' O- [+ O4 L( g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 v. g4 } e1 X+ H! 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! & m& q! @. e* M. C
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' N% M4 I# o. m$ C6 `) U9 sEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.% j. @9 M9 P6 g
0 E9 Y" E0 b \9 _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.; o6 |2 b' d; Z0 J
) Y( w" n$ S" _8 N1 _$ lCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.. t9 \$ Y: e. `. ^. F3 A* C/ P6 e: R
. l% K+ j5 C: X" Q( R9 V* qThe 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.9 }( ^' W% y t" ?
6 U9 m2 O$ F+ k4 ]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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+ x. E+ m1 ]: x' f% e+ p! k"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."6 E% @% D- n$ o3 m
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