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7 E, t |' j, s7 J/ M8 W- A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。) Y4 D6 w1 K. r+ b1 b
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! + e+ O) z4 _6 a9 }9 F8 d( B
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.( F0 w2 i9 b* r/ i# X- m
% I/ i2 a- |/ q* f3 o- LStatistics 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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1 `! M3 o% O* J& F FCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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% ^7 A4 Q' c- q* j* H$ kThe 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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( d/ |, x) O9 Z, l3 T) W! GEdmonton 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 U7 l6 F/ o" M( Q7 `( N( e- h, x"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."+ N6 p" h- o s' a& D
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