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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。
' h! o0 w7 ]% l" Z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！ ( A4 B* I8 V' G4 l( ^
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7 F* `% v2 O. [9 O" f0 W" @Edmonton'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 K' D7 A" }; O0 }# z( LStatistics 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.3 L1 v0 w+ Z, q9 M, ^/ ^
, ]( I, j; k; g5 sCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.# C5 ^! y& r6 Q- i
$ `2 N' r' |4 P8 O. `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.# v+ C3 s. x" k
2 V) l- M- \! B0 W# yEdmonton 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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"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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