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& Z" m1 e' w4 n, _, X% a2 B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。9 o7 s/ j8 A8 \* u8 [' I' E8 X
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 y' K% V% D: Z0 s$ B0 }, e
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+ R O% i/ [5 H O% Y, Z& o9 K, aEdmonton'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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2 [5 u3 V+ ~9 h0 @0 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.9 k0 u% \% {, `, [ N+ j
; \( U1 ^) s, f# pCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.% J0 D! o6 S1 E$ I' U3 g8 H9 q) s6 @
4 T4 @4 `9 c$ j L6 GThe 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.# |, q( T6 t; T& x
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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.
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4 E/ [9 D/ I3 p" i* f! \% h, @"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."! E1 v6 `) n' B! K2 o. i. d. M
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