In 1957 he moved to Apex, an Inuit community about 5 km (3.1 mi) outside of Iqaluit, to work at the Frobisher Bay Air Base.

[1][3] Beginning in the 1960s he began several businesses including the original taxi service, Astro Theatre (in 1994, the first, and as of 2016 the only cinema in Nunavut), Arctic Ventures (which he later sold to Kenn Harper).

Pearson ran for re-election and won the new Baffin South electoral district in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election.

[1] Pearson attempted a political comeback in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election running in the Iqaluit electoral district.

[1] The town mourned his lost, Queen Elizabeth sent a letter of condolences and the Canadian territories hung the flag at half mast in Pearson's honour.