Savant Lake is an unincorporated place and community in Unorganized Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.

[1] The town was founded when the National Transcontinental Railway was built in the early 1900s.

It was originally named Bucke, after a civil engineer in charge of building the railroad.

[2] In 1918, the Hudson's Bay Company opened a fur-trade post along the railway at Bucke in order to forestall competition.

Savant Lake railway station is on the line and is served by Via Rail transcontinental Canadian trains.