 Paul Vidal de la Blache and French Canada 
Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918) visited the province of Quebec twice: once in 1904, on his way to the United States and once in 1912, as a member of Mission Champlain. This article analyzes three aspects of this part of Vidal’s career. First, the focus is on the trips themselves: motives, circumstances, and sequence of events. Then, we pay attention to the role played by Vidal in the construction of scholarly geography in French Canada. Finally, we examine the writings that Vidal produced for and about his two trips to North America. We focus on three themes: Vidal’s point of view on French Canada; on Americanism, which he conceived of as a way of living (genre de vie) specific to the North American continent; and on the economic and political modernization dictated by the geographical dynamics of the time.