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 Williams (Michigan politician) died March 31, 1934 in Green Bay, WI. He was buried next to his wife, Salina, in Houghton, MI (Daily Mining Gazette-Houghton April 3, 1934 obit.). George Williams (Michigan politician) George Williams was born on 24 September 1869 in Oswestry, which has at various times in history been part of either Wales or Shropshire, England. Sometime before 1884 he immigrated to Marquette in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. He was educated there, and began working on the railways at an early age, eventually becoming a General Agent of the Copper Range Railroad. Williams was a Republican