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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。/ q' U7 i2 @8 T5 V
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！ 9 b8 S5 k; e( {: ^6 c9 l5 l
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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.0 m( z' u7 W0 W" r( r
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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., A3 x& I: P& a3 }
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Canada's population reached 33.4 million in 2011.0 Y( ~/ v- t9 K% S
" }) x0 V& U( ~8 d+ RThe 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.2 E' O4 J' k& R3 S5 b3 j
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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., I2 R5 o9 w0 m* X% s
! \- Y. x, V: ]"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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