Career
Born in Mashteuiatsh, the only Native community in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Gill received a bachelor"s degree in pedagogy from Université Laval. He was founding president of the Conseil Attikamek-Montagnais and chief of the Mashteuiatsh Montagnais community from 1975 to 1982 and from 1987 to 1989. Gill ran for a seat to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 Canadian federal election.
He faced three other candidates in the electoral district of Roberval.
He was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on September 17, 1998. He sat as a Liberal representing the Quebec senatorial district of Wellington.
He retired from the Senate on his 75th birthday on August 26, 2008. Gill died on January 17, 2015.