My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Honours

In 1967 Forrester was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. She sang at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1975 in Das Rheingold Siegfried and Un ballo in maschera. See also

Music of Canada
Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester CC OQ (25 July 1930 – 16 June 2010) was a Canadian operatic contralto.