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6 V! e1 X7 H3 {7 F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。
! I6 m$ M5 s# X4 d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! ! g7 b j. j' |; Q
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0 l: I* D1 i1 y+ }4 @- {2 FEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.( d5 ?* J7 E ]; l' Z% }: j
+ O$ {6 E% g/ A7 T. P7 L4 HStatistics 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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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.) H( O6 f& z" s7 \: }
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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.& b' Q7 l& n6 i, |: E. v7 V$ Y9 N
|$ u7 l( \8 {1 N$ w2 JEdmonton 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.# {. s" R; H! 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."9 Y9 Q" W0 v; `. [# y: b" y) g
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