Sir George Williams University represented Sir George Williams University. Shortly after Sir George Williams merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University in 1974, The Georgians and the Loyola Warriors were replaced by the Concordia Stingers. 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
Walter Williams (painter) Walter Williams (painter) Walter Williams (1834-1906) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. He was born George Walter Williams on 29 November 1834 in London, being the son of the well-known Victorian landscape painter George Augustus Williams and his wife Caroline Smith. Some sources attribute to him a twin brother named George. However, as his baptismal record proves, George and Walter are the same person. He became a painter like his father, and married another painter Jane Pearcy (1832-1872), with whom he had two children - Florence Ada Williams