Colville Lake is the 20th largest lake in

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...

. The lake is located northwest of

Great Bear Lake Great Bear Lake ( den, Sahtú; french: Grand lac de l'Ours) is a lake in the boreal forest of Canada. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border), the fourth-largest ...

in the

Sahtu Region The Sahtu Region is an administrative region in Canada's Northwest Territories. Coterminous with the settlement region described in the 1993 Sahtu Dene and Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, of the Sahtu is collectively owned by its Indi ...

. The lake has a perimeter of and a net area of and a total area of .Northwest Territories - Lake Areas and Elevation (lakes larger than 400 square kilometres)
/ref> The only community on the lake, Colville Lake, which is the

Sahtu The Sahtú or North Slavey (historically called ''Hare'' or ''Hareskin Indians'') are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the vicinity of Great Bear Lake (''Sahtú'', the source of their nam ...

Dene The Dene people () are an Aboriginal peoples in Canada, indigenous group of First Nations in Canada, First Nations who inhabit the northern Boreal forest of Canada, boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dene speak Northern Athabaskan languag ...

village of 126 and is located on the southeast shore, along with

Colville Lake/Tommy Kochon Aerodrome Colville Lake/Tommy Kochon Aerodrome is a registered aerodrome located next to Colville Lake, Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Terri ...

and

Colville Lake Water Aerodrome Colville Lake Water Aerodrome is located just west of Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It may be used for ski equipped aircraft in the winter months. See also *Colville Lake/Tommy Kochon Aerodrome Colville Lake/Tommy Kochon Aero ...

. Like the community it is named for

Andrew Colvile Andrew Colvile (born Andrew Wedderburn; 6 November 1779 – 3 February 1856) was a Scottish businessman, notable as the Hudson's Bay Company#Governors, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, a huge organisation set up for the North American ...

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