The Presbyterian College, Montreal

The Presbyterian College/Le Collège Presbytérien, 3495 University Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, is a Theological College of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and is affiliated with McGill University through its Faculty of Religious Studies. The Presbyterian College's student base comes from across Canada and around the world.

The Presbyterian College is a theological College of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. It is a member of the Montreal School of Theology, a Consortium of three theological colleges: Diocesan College (Anglican), The Presbyterian College, and the United Theological College.

The official history of the college began in the early 1860s, but the date of 1865 is the benchmark as the Canada Presbyterian Church approved the request of the Presbytery, to complement that denomination's only Theological College, Knox College, located in Toronto.

Lay leadership in this cause came from prominent Montrealers John Redpath and McGill Principal John William Dawson.

Classes began in the autumn of 1867 in the basement of Erskine Presbyterian Church in downtown Montreal, with Professor (later Principal) Donald Harvey MacVicar.

The College remained within the Presbyterian Church in Canada after church union, although most of the faculty departed. The 1925-1926 academic year was held from the Anglican Diocesian College, until the provincial Quebec Courts awarded the College back to the "continuing" Presbyterian Church in Canada.

During World War II, Presbyterian College was used for soldier training, and temporarily moved to Toronto, Ontario, and joined with Knox College, from 1943-1946. Some graduates of the College, in the spirit of good natured competition, still refer to that period as "the Babylonian captivity"!