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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。
6 L" P8 b1 O9 B2 B: i3 k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 L/ w1 d2 Y& `* K! z" ]/ Y
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0 L2 T6 K, J* _. k& ^' N7 S# MEdmonton'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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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.$ ?9 r6 M: [: q8 ]
4 X& Y! W7 W2 \! C O4 O& RCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.
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" G( C# J3 W4 e' h( }4 d. f$ 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.
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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.; Z0 l5 m2 K4 `2 v) @1 x7 L2 c
2 m3 r; r ]; Y5 I" o/ d& E7 D3 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."( X7 C, B2 T/ i
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