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OTTAWA — Who knew census-takers could behave like rock stars?

Broken furniture. Stained carpets. Marker-smeared bed sheets and linens. Damaged wallpaper.

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It may sound like something out of an old Led Zeppelin biography, but newly released documents show one enumerator’s wild romp left Statistics Canada with a hefty bill for a trashed hotel room.

The government first reported the payment last fall in its annual Public Accounts documents. But now there’s new photographic proof that census-takers know how to party.

Eight of them rolled into Brantford, Ont., in July 2011 and checked into the Hampton Inn and Suites. They were enumerators from the East Coast, conscripted to help with census work on the Six Nations reserve.

Two of the workers were related, according to a briefing note. Why that relationship is significant is not spelled out in the documents.

Much of what happened over the next 11 days is unclear. Statistics Canada blacked out key details in documents released to The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.