Catherine FORESTIER (Fortier) was destined to become the mother of renowned fur trader, Maurice Ménard. 

Soon after her arrival from LaRochelle in 1657, the 17-year old Catherine Forestier married Jacques Ménard, a wheelwright and master carpenter from Fontenay le Comte, Poitou.  It appears he arrived at the same time.  First mention of him in Canada is at his marriage contract to Catherine Forestier.  After their marriage in November 1657, they settled in Trois-Rivières, an area where fur trading was a main activity.  Ten months later, they had their first child, and would go on to have 13 children.  Two of their children, above-mentioned Maurice Ménard, born in 1664, and a daughter Jeanne-Françoise Ménard, born 1669, are ancestors in the Cameron line.       

In 1666, the family was at Trois-Rivières and had 2 domestics (contract workers) in their employ.  In 1681, the family was at Boucherville where the census indicated Jacques Ménard possessed 2 rifles, 5 animals, and 7arpents (acres) of useable land. 

Catherine Forestier died in Boucherville in March of 1694 at the age of 54. 

Jacques Ménard, who was 11 years older than Catherine, died in Boucherville in January 1707 at the age of about 78.