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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。: F- Z7 o1 h' ?$ E% e9 V
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! 1 j3 D* r% j4 o9 t r
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/ x h" e( Z- cEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.9 k: i4 _- l6 q. |% I# R
- ~7 b3 }' v/ t# `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.) M: ?2 R( ?; e% `
: ~- U) A6 j" `Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 Y1 q* g* p+ }, p# e
' B1 I$ m; s2 N7 S- G& uThe 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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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.1 G' Y! {; S6 K7 ]
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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."$ F) T0 @/ t3 V9 ]
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