Marsh Lake

The Marsh Lake is a lake in the Yukon Territory in Canada.

He is more of a widening of the Yukon River on up to 4 km. Here, the lake is about 30 km long.

The lake formed the southern boundary of the traditional territory of the Ta'an Kwäch'än First Nation, a Native American group, one of the Southern Tutchone. There are also other groups such as the Tagish.

The Yukon has played an important role in the transport of gold seekers and their equipment to Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. Many of the men built initially boats themselves and cut down trees for the Bennett Lake and the Tagish Lake, less on Marsh Lake, which still bore the name of Mud Lake at this time. The surveyor and physician Frederick Schwatka (1849-1892) named him. The Ta'an Kwäch'än withdrew from the area and received a tiny reserve at Lake Laberge north of Whitehorse.

With the steamboats plying on the lakes, the demand for wood, which served as fuel for the boiler grew. At the southeastern end of Marsh Lake an extensive logging began.

1942 began the construction of the Alaska Highway, which runs along the east side of the lake. 1956 forced the Canadian government the merging of several Indian tribes for Whitehorse Indian Band, now Kwanlin Dun First Nation in and around Whitehorse. These groups had settled early on to Whitehorse. Only in 1987, the Ta'an Kwäch'än broke again from this association. They concluded in 2002 an agreement with the government, which provides them with a self -governing reserve around Lake Laberge.

With the growth of the capital of the territory occurred on the lake more and more houses, so that in 2001 the place was Marsh Lake, which has around 400 inhabitants. In 2008 there were 406 households, where many of the residents live only in the summer one of the 437 lots.