George Sharratt Pearson (April 27, 1880 – August 24, 1966) was a Canadian politician in the province of British Columbia.
He was born in Bromley, Staffordshire in 1880,[1] the son of Joseph Dudley Pearson and Emma Sharratt.
[3] In 1942 Pearson was a powerful political leader who adamantly advocated for the entire Japanese population to be driven out of British Columbia, in spite of military, navy and RCMP assertion, that they posed no threat.
His position was that the entire Japanese population could not be trusted and he sought a final solution for his province: drive them all out.”[4] George Pearson Centre of Vancouver Coastal Health, originally known as the Pearson Tuberculosis Hospital, was named in his honour.
[7] On September 14, 2021, Vancouver Coastal Health Authority announced that they would be renaming the George Pearson Centre due to his history of lobbying against the rights and freedoms of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s.