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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。
% |. V* s+ `5 e' Y' K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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* Z3 K1 {5 [1 S1 b) REdmonton'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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# O- A* m, N5 f# q9 ZStatistics 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.9 f. d. |- A& ^ n
9 _) G/ L2 p l: b) M/ d# ?Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.$ k% `9 n2 F0 L4 A- ^! w
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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.6 S8 N7 p9 M7 G$ H
- Q# l( p* j; {# R+ U/ 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.3 w2 B+ N' ?: K9 o* O9 X4 z. @ L* u
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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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