George Washington Stephens (22 September 1832 – 20 June 1904) was a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and politician.

[1] After leaving school, he worked in the retail hardware trade and with his brother in the family business, then in 1863 Stephens received a law degree from McGill College and was admitted to the Bar of Quebec.

After the sudden and unexpected death of Elizabeth, Stephens married her younger sister, Frances Ramsey McIntosh, in 1878.

They had a son together, Francis Chattan Stephens (1887–1918), who went to become a stockbroker and, during World War I, a Captain in the Canadian 13th Battalion.

Chattan, as he was called, married a daughter of Canadian military minister Albert Edward Kemp in 1912.