Northwest Baptist Seminary is the official theological education institution of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of British Columbia, the Yukon, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Territories. The ancestry of Northwest Baptist Seminary includes two different colleges, three different names and four different locations. It began in Calgary in 1934 with Western Baptist Bible College under the auspices of the Regular Baptist Missionary Fellowship of the Prairie Provinces. Rev. Morley Hall was the founder and Rev. George Dawe was the first principal. This school was located at Westbourne Baptist Church and was operated there until 1939, when many of the young men who would have come to study were, instead, sent to Europe to fight in the Second World War. In 1945, at the end of the war, the leaders in British Columbia and the Prairies Provinces decided to open a college in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Dr. J. B. Rowell was the first president and he was succeeded in 1946 by Rev. George Dawe. This college was given the name, Northwest Baptist Bible College. In 1953 the College was reorganized and Rev. J. H. Pickford became the Dean. The College was relocated in 1958 to southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver. In 1959 the College received its charter from the government of British Columbia which allowed it to grant all theological degrees. The College was now named Northwest Baptist Theological College. In 1972 Dr. J. H. Pickford retired and Dr. Howard Andersen was appointed to be the Dean. Several years later the position of Dean was changed to President. The College in Vancouver usually had several students who were working on graduate degrees such as the M.Div. (which at that time was designated as the B.D) and M.Th. In 1976 the graduate division officially became a seminary under a Seminary Dean. Rev. Douglas Harris became the president in 1980, a post which he held until 1995. In 1987 the leaders of the Seminary and the Fellowship joined together with two other seminaries - Canadian Baptist Seminary and Trinity Western Seminary - to form a consortium which was named the Associated Canadian Theological Schools, known as ACTS Seminaries. ACTS Seminaries has added two more partners recently: Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary and Canadian Theological Seminary. In 1989 Northwest Baptist Seminary relocated to the campus of Trinity Western University where it is presently housed in the Fosmark Center. Dr. Larry Perkins is presently the President of the Seminary.