Sir George Williams University Sir George Williams University Sir George Williams University was a university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University on August 24, 1974. In 1851, the first YMCA in North America was established on Ste-Helene street in Old Montreal. Beginning in 1873, the YMCA offered evening classes to allow working people in the English-speaking community to pursue their education while working during the day. Sixty years later, the Montreal YMCA relocated to its current location on Stanley Street in Downtown Montreal. In 1926, the education program at the YMCA was re-organized as Sir George Williams
George E. Williams St. Louis, Missouri. George E. Williams George E. Williams (28 February 1828 – 31 October 1914) was an American newspaper publisher and politician from New York. He was born on February 28, 1828, in Clay, Onondaga County, New York. He attended the public schools, and for six months the Clinton Liberal Institute. In 1851, he became the editor and publisher of the "Phoenix Gazette", a Whig-leaning newspaper. Two years later he moved to Fulton, in Oswego County, and published there the "Oswego County Gazette". Williams and his paper joined the Republican cause in 1855. In 1858, the paper was merged