Canadian Baptist Ministries

The first Baptist church in what is now Canada was founded by an American pastor in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1763.

[3] In 1869, the Canadian auxiliary was reorganised as the Regular Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Canada, and in 1889, the name was changed to The Board of Foreign Missions of the regular Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec.

[4] Meanwhile, Baptist Churches in the Maritime colonies had been supporting the work of Adoniram Judson in Burma since 1814.

[5] In 1874, the Canadian Baptist Foreign Missionary Society was founded in Ontario.

[6] The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board (CBFMB) was founded in 1912.

[10] In 1947, the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec authorized the ordination of women ministers and Muriel Spurgeon Carder was the first ordained woman.

[15] It engages in international mission on behalf of Canadian Baptist churches and brokers national cooperation among the four regional denominations and Women's groups.