Western Canadian Theoretical Psychology
The group began as an outgrowth of the University of Alberta's Centre for the Advanced Study of Theoretical Psychology in 1989, in part due to the development of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology in 1985 a group of theoretical psychologists from Western Canada decised to start their own organization (Smythe, 1998).
The WCTP group has met every year since 1989, at various locations around western Canada. Meetings are usually held in the fall (September or October), but for a few years they were held in May.