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. t! }$ `3 P3 }" o9 Z0 {: Z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。
4 b7 e* Z# A$ b6 B& s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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9 H( N; Z; d6 u, u+ hEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.* |# a+ P1 C& P( Y2 S4 B( ~% z
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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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( ]" u" I, z- F2 pCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 C; O" ]% x. _- x+ L
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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.. {1 P+ k( `0 E! y
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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.8 O- Y0 s* c& j& B. h
4 y! _) H/ k$ U( F3 k( ?4 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.". \6 M* q. z. g; `! B
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