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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 n1 x' d8 x' V# d3 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 U m9 a; g9 C* E/ R
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3 h- d% H8 \0 ]: UEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.2 I! P/ t6 J' @
) g3 d/ t h- {. O6 VStatistics 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. ]; A p+ {/ ?' D+ ~' ^
1 c; I! t$ [4 z& k' z% a, YCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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8 S* Q8 R4 h; K1 fThe 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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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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7 V& \* Y$ y4 b, G, I3 i. {$ E"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."+ f( U/ Y/ W+ Y& }4 x
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