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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。; |! ]6 C+ D0 j" d+ j
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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1 n# `+ w6 l, ?# u' D/ }Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.; ?% w' @: h' R$ ~2 i) J
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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.8 K3 k! @* @3 m) o+ u; h
3 }- M0 f/ P9 q5 P9 b7 ~. k8 ICanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011./ g) ~; W7 B$ I: N" t3 k v8 l, r
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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.; r1 f1 H/ H$ h( r2 o$ L( \. D
' o# y, G; h1 qEdmonton 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.": G" k* c2 g; P2 y" n% {
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