Career
In addition, he was active from 1940-1985 in depicting the Outaouais region of western Quebec and Ontario. He began his career as a professional photographer in 1940, recording the Eucharistic Congress at Trois-Rivièresearch In 1947, he shot the Ottawa Marian Congress and became a freelancer for Le Droit, becoming a permanent contributor from 1954 to 1969.
At the same time, he was class photographer for 125 schools in the Hawkesbury - Ottawa area.
The Champlain Marcil archives contains 135,425 photographs and is preserved in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (National Library and Archives of Québec) in Gatineau.