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4 @% J w* i5 F% w7 p3 g% F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。
4 y& [* X7 \9 _4 I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! & m, \/ L3 j$ D
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- ~) T; X5 B$ ~6 v# w8 U* K( rEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.* u/ i. s, W6 R/ J
; t' k! Y, ~/ v8 C+ {8 E" {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.3 Y# Z7 u& g, j3 v8 o5 n& `
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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! T' ?8 B1 a7 ]* j& U# \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.; j( s3 }, I# `5 |5 p' ^2 w
2 H) t$ t4 x+ E) 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.
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$ `7 [ p3 y7 y/ z7 g/ R"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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