When James Armstrong Ebert was born in October 1844, in Québec, Canada, New France, his father, John Ebert, was 35 and his mother, Ann Jane Armstrong, was 28. He married Mary Content Judd on 30 April 1868, in Portage-du-Fort, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Bryson, Pontiac, Quebec, Canada in 1881 and New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada in 1911. He died on 23 January 1920, in Pontiac, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Pontiac, Quebec, Canada.