Named after the area it is in. John Rudolph Ebbers was a well-known area dairy farmer. Ebbers was born in 1895 in the Netherlands and came to Edmonton in 1912. He worked for the city's electrical department, and then ventured into the farming business. In 1937 the City decided to expand the nearby airport, Blatchford field, which had begun operation more than a decade earlier, in 1926. Ebbers' dairy farm was on the land slated for expropriation. He was offered $2,200 in compensation for the loss of his business, land and buildings. Ebbers then purchased a quarter section of land in northeast Edmonton and established Ebbers Dairy, later known as Ebberdale Farm. Today, only 2.43 ha. of the Ebberdale farm remains.