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% [. [1 y" V( p. W! }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。
3 h7 V% B" D( p' M+ N; j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 m P H3 L9 |$ H
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Edmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.% `' X& T7 x* O; s! t
) K: e" s& S6 D# i! g" d9 oStatistics 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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) g. k& }! V; P4 xCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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' H8 D& D' \6 e) @6 Y _1 EThe 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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9 Y! ~+ g1 j3 b# ~3 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.7 f+ Y* D! W0 z
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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."; g$ B- C4 \% ?$ l
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