When Joseph Paul Gustave Adalbert Anctil was christened on 28 April 1906, in Saint-Philippe-de-Néri, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, his father, David Anctil, was 40 and his mother, Aglaee Dumais, was 34. He died on 20 December 1976, in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Saint-Pascal, Kamouraska, Quebec, Canada.