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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。1 z* W1 k6 u* v+ H
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！ 7 m, W; G) u g8 _2 b! _
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0 `5 `# h9 `- v3 Q9 REdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.1 C! }2 ^3 E! P% L
2 b$ r4 I9 l+ p# f/ {! V1 pStatistics 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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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.* u0 W; C2 P& E* a, d
$ X( T2 w, _) ?% ]' j/ wThe 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./ c1 Z# k- D: x, u! K; C
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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." R9 L2 {; E3 t$ V" J9 R' i
3 g% I' u! J- k' b4 P"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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