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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 2 E& i6 ^; B) i* |! O
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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。
! e4 x# s5 F* B- R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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: v3 j: f: T: yEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.# t! U; ]% b: {9 M# I+ U% z" F; E
0 s; T2 C& ]) {' h/ rStatistics 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.$ t* l4 }4 O9 C% n: Y! m
; {' L1 I' Z1 Z3 H& pThe 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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5 b* Z* Y" N, X6 N( u fEdmonton 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.6 a0 `8 f! t2 W& s3 G2 A
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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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