Saskatchewan Archives (R-A75931)
One of the most famous pets in Saskatchewan’s history has to be Jocko the monkey, who lived at Government House with Lieutenant Governor Amédée Forget and his wife Henriette. Forget and his wife had no children, but they were both animal lovers, and in addition to Jocko they also had a pet parrot named Coquette.
Forget served as Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories from 1898 to 1905, and as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan from 1905 to 1910. During this time Jocko had free reign of the Lieutenant Governor’s residence where he had his own rocking horse, and was known to be a bit of a troublemaker who loved to swing from the chandeliers.
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