George Everett Chalmers

George Everett Chalmers (5 June 1905 to 26 April 1993) was a medical doctor, surgeon and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, the son of George Wilson Chalmers and May Branch, he was educated at the University of New Brunswick and graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in 1933. He interned for two years at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal and for one year at the Saint John General Hospital before moving to Fredericton in 1936. During the Second World War he enlisted as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps but could not serve abroad because of diabetes. In 1939 he was a founding member of the Fredericton Medical Clinic, the largest health clinic in the city. He served on the Fredericton City Council from 1945 to 1949, and from 1963 to 1978 he represented York County, the City of Fredericton and Fredericton South in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Progressive Conservative.