By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

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.