[2] Wesley College was established in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1888 by George Young, a Methodist minister.

[3][4] The first year of its program was taught to seven students in the premises of Grace Church.

[5] In 1895, construction of Wesley Hall, designed by George Brown and S. Frank Peters and located on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, was completed.

[3] In 1912, an annex containing classrooms and a dormitory, designed by architect John Hamilton Gordon Russell, was built.

[7] By the first decade of the 20th century, Wesley College became an important source of social gospel in Canada.