takone

Updated: June 19, 2025

Add to this the westerly arm of Lake Bennet, and the Takone or Windy Arm of Tagish Lake, each about fifteen miles in length, and the Taku Arm of the latter lake, of unknown length, but probably not less than thirty miles, and we have a stretch of water of upwards of one hundred miles in length, all easily navigable; and, as has been pointed out, easily connected with Taiya Inlet through the White Pass.

Joseph Francis Ladue - Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest

The hills on the south-west side slope up easily, and are not high; on the north side the deep valley already referred to borders it; and on the east side the mountains rise abruptly from the lake shore. One of the Tagish Indians informed me they called it Takone Lake.

Joseph Francis Ladue - Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest