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本帖最后由 青萝 于 2012-2-9 21:35 编辑 n: U/ `0 L& p
1 T3 s! L, `' X) 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。" ~; C0 U* [8 ], D+ i) H3 g: a
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！ % }& _0 g5 z R4 f3 U# s9 k5 F
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/ h1 F$ v9 x* O' b0 T) K& nEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.- v2 B5 T- f& U& ` ~
' d9 D2 ^# Q( Q# Q! y; E7 |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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8 J# P& s$ V) C- a# |' LCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.3 C7 D4 S+ B+ A; b5 k6 P) _
/ P( b6 u' A; C6 s1 OThe 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.0 ^' m& {2 p' ^9 W1 k e1 W" w
1 k. D: v( H" h' x/ p" DEdmonton 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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* h# V2 N8 Y2 \"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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