When Basile Bélanger was born on 15 February 1700, in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada, his father, François Bélanger, was 33 and his mother, Marie-Catherine Voyer, was 27. He married Marie Josephe Lemay on 16 November 1722, in Île de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 21 August 1780, in Laval, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Laval, Quebec, Canada.