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 their Faculty of Religious Studies. Presbyterian College's Student base is from right across Canada, as well as from international students. The Presbyterian College is a theological College of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. It is a member of the McGill University Consortium of theological colleges. The College's mission is to educate candidates for the ministry of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and to be a centre for education and research in Reformed theology. 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 compliment 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.