Yes, I know you and want to welcome you to this forum. I'm very glad you have joined us and look forward to seeing you here.
I was just thinking about pears the other day, and came to the conclusion that where I live it seems like all pears are bulletproof. I stayed away from Bartlett, because it had a reputation for getting fireblight, but someone sent me a Bartlett by mistake, and it grows just as clean as any other pear I have. I can't recall ever seeing fireblight on any pear I have planted, and the quince rust (similar to CAR in apples) is almost non-existent as well. With that said, below are some of my favorites pears:
Senator Clark
Olympic Giant
Galloway
Kieffer (some others on this forum have reported fireblight, but I've never seen any on mine)
Moonglow
Ayers (I did see just a tad of rust for the first time last year, but it didn't amount to anything in the long run.
Gate
Please keep in mind that the pears I got from Blue Hill are still very young. I do see some fruit on a few of them this year, but I will probably pull it off. I did topwork a wild pear to Sweet Advent last year, and it has 4 big nice pears growing this year. I'm going to let those grow, but since the tree was topworked only last year, they could fall off.
Apples are a whole different animal - if you get the wrong rootstock or variety, you could be in for total failure where I live. CAR is especially devastating here, but if you plant the right apples, you will barely see it at all.
Once again, welcome to the forum.