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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。
$ x, R2 i$ l; P9 f; d7 h: C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! ( D$ H9 N9 _+ r+ t8 o
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2 W5 I8 ?# ]: y( J+ @5 Q& MEdmonton'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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v5 @4 i& B5 Q6 d; 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.
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( a8 W6 S+ ]# l: w) c" [# sCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.7 @+ ^; Z% n1 z+ v( R$ i
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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.
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' O9 d1 C$ H0 ^$ rEdmonton 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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' q+ e4 ?" p+ y# S' ~ ~* ^"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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