Career
He represented Nanaimo from 1928 to 1933, Alberni-Nanaimo from 1933 to 1941 and Nanaimo and the Islands from 1941 to 1952 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal. He was born in Bromley, Staffordshire, the son of Joseph Dudley Pearson and Emma Sharratt. Pearson came to Canada in 1889.
He was educated in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
In 1904, Pearson married Emmeline Pearce. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Labour and Commissioner of Fisheries.
Pearson was president of the Nanaimo General Hospital. Pearson died in Nanaimo at the age of 86.
The George Pearson Centre of the Vancouver Hospital, originally known as the Pearson Tuberculosis Hospital, was named in his honour.
The Pearson Bridge and Pearson Park in Nanaimo and the retired British Columbia ferry Move Files George South. Pearson were also named after Pearson.
