Knox College is a theological college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in Canada, it is a member school of the Toronto School of Theology at the University of Toronto.

Knox College, named after Scottish reformation Theologan John Knox, was established in 1844, immediately following the aftershocks of the 1843 disruption within the Church of Scotland, which formed the Free Church of Scotland, led by Thomas Chalmers. A majority of the Theology students at Queen's College, Kingston, Canada West moved west to Toronto to resume their training in this new denomination.

The first classes were held in November 1844, with 14 students in the home of Rev. Henry Esson on James Street. The following year, a larger house was acquired at 79 Adelaide Street West, and in 1846, Knox's College, moved to Front Street West, opposite today's Union Station, and on the site of the Royal York Hotel. in 1854, Elmsley Villa, the fomer residence of the governor of Canada West, was acquired, and was Knox College's home until 1875. The Charter of Knox College was granted in 1858.

In 1861, the merger of the Free Church with the Canadian Synod of the United Presbyterian Church, into the Canada Presbyterian Church, led to a union of two Theological Colleges; the UPC College had also started in 1844 from London, Ontario, under the supervision of Rev. William Proudfoot. When he died in 1851, his successor was a Toronto minister, who returned to Scotland in 1860.

Knox College was able to assist the formation of another Theological College for the Canada Presbyterian Church; The Presbyterian College in Montreal, Quebec in 1867. A number of books from the library were donated, as well as alumni as faculty.

By 1875, when the Canada Presbyterian Church joined with three other presbyterian groups in Canada to form the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Knox College had dedicated a new building in the middle of Spadina Avenue. This was to be the key College for the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

The Present building was completed in 1914, and is located between the west side of King's College Circle and St. George Street in the heart of the University of Toronto. It was expected to become the college of the United Church of Canada, when the Canadian Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists joined together in 1925, but Knox College remained within the Presbyterian Church in Canada's control.

website: http://www.utoronto.ca/knox/