TELFER, Robert Forrest (1897-1976), active in Toronto as a architectural draftsman in the office of George N. Molesworth from 1914 to 1917, and for other local architects from 1918 to 1925. From 1926 to early 1931 he styled himself as an architect, but under the mandatory registration programme of the Ontario Association of Architects held in 1931, his application to become a member was declined and he altered his title to that of “builder” and continued to list himself as such until after 1938. By 1946 he appears to have abandoned his career and he became sales manager for S.F. Bowser Gasoline & Oil Storage Systems. Telfer was born in Toronto on 28 0ctober 1897 and later died in Woodstock, Ont. on 1 October 1976.
(works in Toronto)
PINE CRESCENT, at Glen Manor Drive East, residence for A. Charles Gregory, 1931 (Const., xxv, May 1932, 106-07, illus.)
GLEN MANOR DRIVE EAST, near Pine Glen Road, residence for John R. Meggeson, 1931 (Const., xxv, May 1932, 110, illus.)
GLENAYR ROAD, residence for Prof. R.C. Young, 1934 (Toronto Daily Star, 18 May 1934, 40)
SCARBOROUGH, large residence for Charles C. Clark, at No. 2 Fallingbrook Drive, at Fallingbrook Crescent, 1937 (Toronto Daily Star, 4 Sept. 1937, 8, illus.)