Aurélien Gill
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Aurélien Gill, CQ, BA (born August 26, 1933) is a Canadian Senator.
Gill is an Aboriginal businessman and advocate. He also has a background as a teacher and government administrator having been Quebec Director-General of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
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 was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1991. He was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on September 17, 1998. He sits as a Liberal representing the Quebec senatorial district of Wellington.
