[3] Under the leadership of Josiah Litch, the first Millerite camp meeting took place in Canada, at Hatley, Quebec.

The Sabbatarian group led by the Whites, Joseph Bates and others sought out the scattered Millerites and presented their Sabbath understanding to them.

In the early 1850s Joseph Bates and Hiram Edson traveled along the northern shore of Lake Ontario trudging through knee-deep snow seeking out the Millerites.

At its first meeting later that year, the delegates voted to create, effective 1 January 1902, a Canadian Union Conference consisting of only the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and the territory of Newfoundland.

[13] The unincorporated union conference and its corresponding legal association were combined in 1986 to form the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, a non-profit religious corporation.

Like Adventists everywhere and throughout their history, individuals and entities of the SDACC have been engaged in promoting healthful living and operating healthcare facilities.

These efforts have included the former Branson Hospital (Toronto), facilities for seniors in New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.

[15][16] In 1906, Adventists in Canada opposed the efforts of the Lord's Day Alliance and others in promoting a Sunday-observance bill in parliament.

In 1986, The union conference and its corresponding legal association were combined to form the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, a non-profit religious corporation.

The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference, organized in 1903, with thirty-five churches and 4,074 members serves a population of c. 2.6 million in the Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan and the Nunavut Territory.

Under the leadership of President Ngoy Kyala, the conference operates one media facility (Il Est Ecrit [It Is Written]).