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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。
( q8 i0 E( X) G) Q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！ ! j/ V5 E) {, |& S- L+ j8 }! p
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; _6 u1 d4 A) F" h. K7 lEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth.( I) L* ~3 r3 d8 N' Y# r
) e Z0 x. M: Z6 h/ J7 qStatistics 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.& f6 h' `: d! C3 u! @8 U0 S4 o- T3 i
' }' ^6 R. d/ D/ I# v8 O4 h f8 L( 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.: a0 \! A" ]: k' z4 U: k' n
1 Y8 |1 y4 ~ vEdmonton 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.- ^( e! C0 O+ ~& p/ B$ m1 ^
' h3 g& n+ }6 t: \! `. v) i"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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