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; V9 A: x b: S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 }4 ^! ~- _! h+ n, e
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！
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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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' d+ b8 C4 _# L _: r+ l# GStatistics 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.7 K3 v8 c- p+ ~9 ~* \2 m7 P
) w% n% T: R' W. u- ACanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.3 {0 V2 y3 ^1 ]4 }! r" t; c7 @1 `
* ?2 C4 X) h2 F4 |' FThe 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.2 T& S- p. e0 d
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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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