Colville Lake Museum

Surely the comfiest, quaintest museum in the entire Northwest Territories, this hand-built log structure in the tiny community of Colville Lake was once the home of famed local priest, pilot and town-founder Bern Will Brown. An Oblate priest in the Catholic church, Brown first came to the Arctic in 1948. He spent the next six decades as a Northerner, building this log cabin in the town that became his home, along with the Our Lady of the Snows church, lost to a fire in 2025, and the Colville Lake Museum. Inside the museum visitors will find many of Brown’s paintings, fur pelts and other local artefacts, along with the North’s first-ever snowmobile.