 This withdrawal was due to the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy, centred on a professor at the Convention's official seminary at McMaster University, who held a liberal/modernist position of theology.In 1944, the BCOQ joined with the "United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes" and the "Baptist Union of Western Canada" to form the first national Canadian Baptist association, the "Canadian Baptist Federation".In 1995, they merged with the "Canadian Baptist International Ministries" to form Canadian Baptist Ministries.