Loyola and Sir George Williams as early Neighbours
Between 1912 and 1916 Loyola and what would soon become SGW were neighbours.
![Hotel Europa. Site of the former Tucker School, and of Loyola College Hotel Europa. Site of the former Tucker School, and of Loyola College](/content/concordia/en/offices/archives/buildings/sgw/neighbours/_jcr_content/content-main/image_0.img.jpg/1427397930565.jpg)
![Site of the Downtown YMCA Site of the Downtown YMCA](/content/concordia/en/offices/archives/buildings/sgw/neighbours/_jcr_content/content-main/image_1.img.jpg/1427397949239.jpg)
After a fire in 1898 Loyola moved to Drummond south of Ste-Catherine, to the former Tucker School, on the site of what is now the Hotel Europa. Jesuit-run Loyola remained on Drummond between 1898 and 1916 until the move to the new west-end campus was complete. The YMCA and its education program, which would soon become Sir George Williams College, moved to its newly built facilities on Drummond Street north of Ste-Catherine in 1912. The two were a mere one block away from each other for a brief four years. After many decades of being cross-town rivals Loyola and Sir George Williams would join forces to create Concordia University in 1974.