In his 47-year duration at the National Gallery of Canada (he retired in 2014), he has acted as an invaluable resource to students of historical Canadian art.
[1] In Canadian art what may be referred to as the Charles C. Hill brand of exhibition cataloguing offers rich resource material beyond the scholarly essays.
[3] In 1980, he was made the National Gallery curator of the permanent collection of Canadian art up to 1970, in charge of its care, installation and development.
[7] In 1920, the National Gallery of Canada Review published his article titled "Portraits of Canadian Artists, Architects, and Writers: The Photographs of Edmond Dyonnet, 1891–1915".
[8] Hill counts among his major acquisitions Emily Carr`s The Welcome Man, the gift of Bryan Adams, and Charles Comfort`s The Romance of Nickle, given by Natural Resources Canada.