This is how I do it: when you setup your db cluster, chose the locale 'C' this will let you select LATIN1 as a database encoding. (or as fas as I understand, any other encoding)
If you let it at the default value, the cluster lc is defaulted to the serveur local charset, in your case UTF8 - English_Canada.1252 (as would any modern windows/linux server be nowadays)
Hope this helps
Didier