sentences:  The Willamette Trading Post was established in 1814 by the North West Company near the site of Champoeg.In the 1830s the French Canadian settlers, who were Roman Catholic, petitioned to Norbert Provencher, the Bishop of Juliopolis at the Red River Colony (present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) to have a priest sent to them.Two of these petitions were sent in 1836 and 1837.