Between 1924 and 1967, Raoul Blanchard and Pierre Deffontaines, two French geographers, have directly influenced the Canadian geography through research, publication and teaching. However, great differences have to be recognized between their geographies, differences which had their roots in France. The first is a « regional » geographer, the second a « human » geographer but both wrote abundantly on human geography. Blanchard made a more orthodox, standard and « regiologist » geography than Deffontaines. Both geographies were idealist and non applied. As the two professors were in Québec, the geographical influence from France was opened to a choice. Among these two leaders, Raoul Blanchard was second to none.