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 (lawyer) George Williams (lawyer) George John Williams is an Australian academic specialising in Australian constitutional law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales. At UNSW he also holds the title of Anthony Mason Professor of Law and Scientia Professor. He is also an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. Williams is a public commentator on public law issues, and writes a regular column in the "Sydney Morning Herald". Williams was born in Queenstown, a mining town in Tasmania, to father John Williams, an economic historian and unionist, and mother Shirley Murphy, an academic specialising in tax