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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 8 }% ?$ R# U' o5 R/ D
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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。2 m! G/ m1 l/ D6 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! # g6 m' l" e1 r# a$ m
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* Q3 j0 z$ p, c( \0 d6 \1 r* i! fEdmonton'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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0 K* c6 W- Z- n; I' xStatistics 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.* s; g; j7 R V
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.: F3 v: v `$ |2 o3 m
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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.3 o5 I1 S) \3 l% X; V% V% E1 m
+ |8 O, c" z g% m& c+ TEdmonton 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.6 T# _" c# K6 x1 N
8 ^9 N6 W- ^# J6 A! G"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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