That’s mainly because it was well over 100 years ago when Charlie first started displaying his silky football skills.
Before the 1920s he was a household name in the Victorian Football League.
He was recruited by Carlton from amateur side Brunswick Juniors in 1916 and played finals football in each of his five completed seasons at Princes Park, Carlton.
He played 80 senior games with Carlton and enjoyed his best season in 1920 when he was appointed vice-captain to Charlie Fisher.
Fisher was at the end of his 111 plus games career after being recruited from Kyabram in 1913.
When Fisher was injured and relinquished the captaincy in 1921, Carlton coach Norman Clark surprisingly overlooked Charlie and promoted centre half-back Paddy O'Brien to the role.
Charlie remained his deputy.
Clark was regarded as not the most tactful coach, so it is easy to conclude that Charlie was not impressed with his rejection.
Carlton still made it all the way to the preliminary final that year only to lose to Collingwood in a gruelling contest on a wet and heavy MCG.
Then the Carlton skipper Paddy O’Brien rekindled the antagonism between Clark and Charlie when he stood down as captain.
Charlie finally became captain, but there can be little doubt there was an uneasy truce with the Carlton coach.
Although when the 1921 VFL season got under way, the tensions between Clark and Canet seemed to have simmered a little when the Blues’ first six matches brought three wins, two draws and a bye, to give Charlie an unblemished record as captain.
But prior to round seven Carlton sprung yet another surprise by announcing that Charlie had been replaced by Gordon Green as captain.
No-one ever knew why but it was obvious Charlie ’s time at Carlton was up.
He played his 80th and last game VFL game in August 1921, when Carlton comfortably accounted for South Melbourne at Princes Park.
At 25 years of age, as a former VFL club captain with 79 games experience, Charlie was very much in demand and it didn’t take long for the offers to roll in.
Eventually he decided to head for he country Nathalia in northern Victoria near where he was born at nearby Tallygaroopna.
The prospect of employment, housing and a minimum salary of eight pounds a week to captain-coach Nathalia compared more than favourably with his pay packet of five pounds a week at Carlton.
In 1922 Nathalia was runner-up and then premiers in the Goulburn Valley Association in 1923. When he took charge Nathalia had not been in the finals for 13 years.
In coaching stints between 1926 and 1940 he also cached Maffra, Sale and Kyabram with all clubs reaching the finals under his leadership.
He also had a stint as playing coach of the Sale Football Club and was appointed Carlton Reserves coach for the 1940 season.
The Canet family history in Australia dated back to Canet’s grandfather, Robert Canet, who as a 17-year-old crewman jumped ship from an English trading vessel at the Melbourne docks during the height of the Victorian goldrush.
Robert made his way to the gold fields, struck it rich, and eventually bought a farm at Tallygaroopna in northern Victoria.
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