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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 % G) r! @$ ]" t2 j% C* Q
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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。5 b! s) ^ {0 b' B0 h) f
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! 7 I& o" o. a6 q2 h+ O" T9 F( N
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: h) ~9 r/ g2 uEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth. A6 c5 @: d* r. D7 ^0 }2 P9 n8 ~
0 A5 \4 k& }, 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.
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.( |3 ]6 _9 n% T6 ^. a* {
. D& R j% u7 @- I7 \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.& _1 c, F- e4 [! Y! ]6 z
; a$ H, y- ]2 }6 wEdmonton 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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"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." X8 ~6 m5 c# j# i; P9 e
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