Ukrainian Baptists became established in Canada early in the 20th century from two independent sources.
Around the turn of the 20th century, English-speaking Baptists sent a missionary to labour among the growing Ukrainian population in western Canada.
These churches were successful in attracting Mennonite, Shtundist, and Eastern Orthodox emigrants from Imperial Russia.
It was originally called the "Russian-Galician Evangelical Convention" and gradually changed to "Russian-Ukrainian" as the name Ukrainian was popularized.
For a number of years afterwards the body operated as the "Federation of Ukrainian Baptist Churches in Canada".