Robert S. C. Williams, is noted for his community service work in

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, Canada. Beginning in

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, Williams reorganized the city's

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, a benevolent organization. He also founded Windsor's Catholic Immigration Centre. In

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, Williams founded the St. Leonard's Society of Canada, North America's first half-way house for released prisoners. Williams was appointed to the

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in 1986.

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