Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

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.