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( |& Q& y- ?" Y4 R7 |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。9 D3 O- l; m0 B6 i3 n, I
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! & M5 @+ q* b( |9 u1 G8 N9 O
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" I; U7 X& j$ U3 {% f! b/ K1 eEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.0 M% j% F1 V2 @6 \( `: X4 {
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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.
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* s/ H( O* S+ m, L: f/ tCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 I' ~. f' ^3 u6 m1 ~( J. v* `
! k5 Z, Q9 F) `9 wThe 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." v4 M! ?+ Z" s% U1 w
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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.
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7 |% K! Z; A3 \5 s& [8 v"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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