Yes, Wesley, that is odd

This seemingly never-ending writers strike has sent me combing through my big book o' TV on DIVX to find something better than episodes of the Colbert Report from before the last election (David Vitter - Ha!) and I came across the late, lamented Clone High. For those who don't know, the theme song sums up the plot:

Way way back in the 1980's
Secret government employees
Dug up famous guys and ladies
And made amusing genetic copies
Now their clones are sexy teens

Now they're going to make it if they try
Loving, learning, sharing, judging
Time to laugh, and shiver and cry

Time to watch,
Clone High

Although I know it from MTV, Clone High is a Canadian show and first aired in the frozen north. Of the main characters, two (Abe Lincoln and JFK) came from America, with the rest from outside the hemisphere.

No Canadians at all. Just Americans on this Canuk show.

Perhaps the writers didn't think the Canadian government would hatch a diabolical secret plan. The more likely explanation is that there was absolutely no hope of selling the show to an American network like MTV or Cartoon Network if it had any Canadian historical figures. Then I thought about whether I could name any Canadians who were dead by the 1980s. The oldest Canadian I could think of is Pierre Trudeau, who died in 2000. Take away Wayne Gretzky, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and my vague awareness of DeGrassi Junior High's existence and all Canadian History before the millennium is lost to me.

Can you name a famous dead Canadian who died long enough ago to get cloned in the 1980s? No Google or Wikipedia - on the honor system.