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" V) b) F8 x" d0 X( L# 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。
6 b6 d O9 M- A9 \5 O' y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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- m8 ^1 k9 W; z! R. x! oEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.+ F5 d; n2 j) [# v' _
* K, }& g% J" V# }/ B0 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.* }0 u. m8 }' T2 W- |1 F
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011./ u7 y2 g' r6 V
; _. Z/ n; g/ y0 o# K0 DThe 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.) N) u8 l3 Y8 P% L. h+ y! r
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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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