SG030 - The Naming of Hondo Traditional Cache

This cache is not that far off the road but it is in the bush so you may have to search around a bit.  If there is a low snow load in winter it can be accessed.  It is part of the Hondo series of caches.

I often wonder why names are named what they are.  My spell checker for instance drives me crazy when I type Hondo and it corrects it to Honda.

I am a little baffled as to how the name of Hondo came about.  If I was referring to an eyelet at the end of a lariat rope through which the other end runs to make a loop it may not be so bad, but I am not.

The Edmonton Bulletin of June 19, 1916 showed a list of Depots of Northern Railway and Hondo was listed as mile 122.7 so we know it was named by then.

We do know that when Henry Willis moved to Hondo in 1919 there were only 4 people there, Mr. Roy, Mr. Vincent, the section man and the section foreman; all bachelors and none of them named Hondo. 

Often times, places are given names of people who had some sort of importance to the area or where they were from.   Perhaps one of these railway employees came from Hondo, New Mexico or Hondo, Texas.  We may never know for sure.