Sapper
Edward Pearson

As a Sapper Pearson's Regimental Pay per Diem would have been 1s. 2 1/2d. plus Working Pay per Diem of 1s. to 4s.

An Edward Pearson was a hardware merchant at Barkerville from 1876-1877, and a teamster Yale in 1880. 

Ed. H. Pearson was bookkeeper in New Westminster in 1887.