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: @# Z5 y$ ~/ f7 A. I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。
3 Y1 Q! E& K0 r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! $ c* C2 d5 X; t+ n) i& ]
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.& |2 X( }9 K$ M8 u6 y/ D
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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 M6 S0 u% v# C
9 r8 h! `3 v/ t! y) _8 ]1 qCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011./ M+ Q/ `/ k' _8 W3 ^$ _
' Z2 ]' e; n& D8 i8 |$ IThe 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.# c; T; l5 k( s" Y" Q! I
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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." h7 C- V2 i; U' d$ O
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