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8 ?3 Y! b. e! V+ O0 _1 \( T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。
+ Y% A/ N8 ?: \0 a# p. q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! # F7 |- o. D' r' A1 D7 X3 E
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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.
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# j$ M1 u! p- m: x, aStatistics 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.5 S( s/ e+ q1 k; `; ?( t7 S
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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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.+ z {) ?1 C6 R, i9 E0 R3 n2 @
6 t% n) ~- y2 T% Z- y+ @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.3 r9 _0 ]0 \7 m( s) P3 ~8 f
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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."* P9 x' h$ R- v
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