[8] While the neighbourhood didn't develop until the 1960s and 1970s, the area is closely associated with the Town of Beverly, a working class community that amalgamated with Edmonton in 1961.

[6][7] Shortly after arriving in Canada in 1927, a Dutch immigrant named Jacob Prins bought a farm east of Beverly in the area that is now Rundle Heights, and which included one of the larger coal mines in the Edmonton Area.

In the 1950s, the Prins family tried strip mining coal near the river on the eastern side of the property.

The Prins' farm ceased production in 1966, and most of the land was subdivided for the Rundle Heights neighbourhood.

The stretch of 32nd street that runs in the northern part of the neighborhood contains numerous public housing developments.