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! F# v8 k9 G- {3 G5 h. e0 f0 R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。! G0 K& M# e/ _3 E: 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！ " Y, Q9 y! x2 x* C- _
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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.7 Z+ X" s C1 M, {
9 x2 I1 O% ]* NStatistics 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.
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" g, @9 d; h1 m+ G- @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.( }; N9 R1 v( g) |: E
- u2 H8 D) F6 X R5 FEdmonton 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.0 _9 F6 ]0 U! I( j. m N
; n7 ~& b4 v! h* Y5 S/ A"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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