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3 d, g9 N# ` v+ Q8 i: Y8 v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 j! u, @! P: I* N7 x
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! / Z, I, J, ~* D* d
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u1 G& I, z2 {1 Z- \2 k: hEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.* b2 T$ [. _7 \
/ }) m! f" O' c* `, y9 n6 ]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.! J: ]- A; Q" P) ?7 W2 b2 x
3 { d5 F. J8 f, jCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011., U; X. h9 R* d- m" k( p J( m
1 _1 ]( R" ~) w& Q" `( J" s- QThe 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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: ?& L# J+ t' L6 w0 h; dEdmonton 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.# Y# @2 {9 V* Q5 V0 b# a1 E
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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."
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