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At the request of the Hudson's Bay Company, French Catholic missionaries established Mission St. Joseph of Newmarket and school in the 1848 at Priest Point near the future townsite for the conversion of natives to Catholicism.
In 1856 Augustin-Magloire Blanchet, the bishop of the new Diocese of Nesqually (now the Archdiocese of Seattle), approached Mother Émilie Gamelin, the foundress of the Sisters of Providence, seeking their assistance for his diocese in the Pacific Northwest Territories of the United States.