One week after she disappeared from the parking lot of her workplace, Corrections Canada employees in Laval remember murdered colleague Natasha Cournoyer as an outstanding employee with a bright future.

The body of the 37-year-old communications officer, from Piedmont was found earlier this week in Pointe-aux-Tembles.

Her co-workers have set up a makeshift shrine in their parking lot, the last place that Cournoyer was seen alive, while another memorial has sprouted in the park where her body was found.

One of Couronyer's supervisors at Corrections Canada paid tribute to her at a news conference Thursday.

Johanne Vallee said the correctional service is a tough place to leave your mark, but that Cournoyer managed to do so very quickly after starting work with the agency in May.

"Natasha Cournoyer was really professional, she was quite dynamic, really organized," said Vallee, director general for the agency's correctional services in the Montreal area.

"She was appreciated by all."

Discussed future

Last Thursday, on the day she went missing, Cournoyer was discussing long-term career possibilities with her supervisors.

She vanished during her routine 300-metre walk across a parking lot from her office building to her car. Her car never made it out of the parking lot.

Cournoyer was seen on a surveillance camera leaving the building. There are no cameras covering the parking lot where her car was, but police have been scanning footage of the cars that left the lot exit.

Vallee said Cournoyer performed communications work, like writing speeches.

However, she moved to dismiss any suggestion her job might have had anything to do with the killing.

She said Cournoyer rarely came into contact with prisoners, and only occasionally visited prisons for "protocol" issues.

"She was in no contact with inmates and as with any other visitor she was always escorted when she went to institutions," said Vallee.