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, B2 r( W0 s/ b' Y G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 _* o8 u8 F: ^* e4 _( N' k, 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! ( I" ^: K8 e* G; M0 J
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) Y. ^( v q ]# k7 j% q9 SEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.$ U3 A7 Y( A) C5 _8 f% C
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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.; }. p+ \% S6 z/ ^
* v* z4 {: N/ X _/ d6 TCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 M% @1 X, ]5 B! ]* b: i
3 F9 M/ |' v" i! \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.8 \5 D+ N; l& l6 R! c4 [
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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.
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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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