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% {2 f# S5 G4 x" z! h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。
( D: a, l: p1 o8 G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! : L/ c* Q" ]. z* p
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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.5 l& g4 L, L: L D0 P9 i$ C3 O
8 m% X1 C5 r2 V `$ SStatistics 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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) a5 d6 t9 M4 L, O2 b4 ?Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011. I% o1 ~# z; E% \8 y7 V
: E$ Y* l% g" Y5 v) C+ c' kThe 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.7 i8 N/ X1 F8 I9 O8 A7 {! `& |
4 K1 c' x7 M6 Y J; GEdmonton 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.
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' t) L1 o) h7 h8 P) s8 K7 {"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."/ S! [* D4 F' {" N, w
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