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0 |4 Y! W3 V8 y5 P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。
* o% e7 ]: v* H( H x+ t6 C5 M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! 9 e! J% F7 p: J
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, }7 g" z% X9 d# ^. _2 X" dEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.
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. _9 v" h+ C+ W( K) c k w5 wStatistics 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." f2 w6 n+ |' D' Q$ [0 |! k( T
, ?- w& t3 C" h& D' T; D0 PCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011." B. c, \0 d0 @5 y* T! i4 r
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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.; F6 X5 T& \4 @1 i* S% q8 _
) B/ l$ o _% D3 Z }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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"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."! n# _/ p; U2 {. M& t" j
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