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' K7 _* x* x; V0 A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。
* X4 `5 ?0 t4 ?% M! W9 K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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6 d; W% Q2 S3 j9 W! j1 rEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.9 z0 f m7 Z& B# [! ]3 g
% g, y7 t0 P3 d `8 M, XStatistics 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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[0 f8 u9 [& i, N/ R& WCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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' N; K; w8 U1 r8 x' T4 QThe 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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* m4 F; G" [% p4 A9 D8 TEdmonton 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.0 L8 O4 `6 ?, M: b: `1 C+ y
8 \6 d2 X% t/ r"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."! u* Q7 N% L) ~7 T( ]
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