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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。
) b" I0 n. F* A C0 ]1 A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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* L% a& g% `9 V$ ^* C. Y' y' ^3 gEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.# d8 K. C4 [8 h
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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.5 I) D: F! }4 J! F
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.) } r( V8 m6 i! M! P4 a' s: m. D
3 @7 O3 ^8 x! h9 m+ vThe 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.* q1 M% I( b+ n" O+ v1 D
/ X3 _6 K' ~$ J2 o. S$ VEdmonton 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."# T3 B# v# Q; d7 [9 [* | \8 @. S
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