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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。
! j% `6 x$ J% ?* 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！
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+ g8 t# C4 q0 ]; u0 XEdmonton's population grew at boom-time levels during the past five years, despite an economic downturn some thought might temper growth./ |2 ]2 U2 s9 p+ j) K. q
7 V s, l0 G8 ~' xStatistics 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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) k1 { M3 o2 P; WCanada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.! F- X+ m7 B) W" B. h/ S/ I
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The 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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4 ~0 n, r2 {/ }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.3 n( a! z# ^. u: B: `! a- g; r
+ ^2 z5 X1 ~$ J! T* Q"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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