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7 ~( F! {. ^: W4 @3 I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。# L# e" I" b F
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！ % z8 d$ j- i w& ?* G
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( u+ g/ {1 {- \: l8 L( k5 sEdmonton'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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; r8 p0 V! w, N5 |# rStatistics 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.; q* N) o7 R; p! N
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.$ F$ g- k7 F$ o5 z$ o8 R, x& G
" g; l+ T2 }" iThe 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.3 g, @" {- ~* 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.
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l3 [( J( z- D"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."8 y k! M$ {0 G8 U
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