No idea. Let’s say that it’s someone in the USSR around 1980 who was infatuated with Western culture, but was against the USA for whatever reason. (I was thinking the Moscow Olympics boycott, but I think Canada was part of that, too.) So, they were big fans of all things Canada.
There is no need for me to use a spoiler box. I don’t recognize either name. Since you mentioned age, I am 38. I don’t know if that means I’m too old or too young to recognize the names in question.
The weird thing about the 50s that no one today can identify with is that if you didn’t get a comic strip in your local newspaper it was as invisible as the dark side of the moon.
Geezerish. Didn’t pick it up. Remembered after seeing the spoiler. But I don’t recall it from the comic strip. The wiki shows 1956 so I was bit young to be reading at the time.