Gillian Florence is a Canadian rugby union player who has participated in five world cups (1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010).

Florence first started playing rugby in high school (1987–1992) in Grade ten[1] and John Abbott College (1992–1994).

[2] In 2011, Florence, along with Brooke Hilditch and Megan Gibbs protested Canada's "pay-to-play" system for women in non-World Cup years by refusing to pay the $2,900 to play in the 2011 Nations Cup.

[1] She is now on the Monty Heald Fund committee which aims to eliminate the "pay to play" experience.

In Montreal she worked for Caterpillar, for Ultra Electronics in Nova Scotia, and now Kinduct in Halifax.