 The municipality is bordered to the east by the Du Lièvre River and by Whitefish Lake ("lac du Poisson Blanc") in the north-west.Its terrain is characterized by several deep lakes (including Reservoir l'Escalier) in a hilly terrain with altitudes between and .Bowman Township was formed in 1861 and named after one of the first inhabitants of this place, Baxter Bowman, who operated a sawmill at Dufferin Chutes in Buckingham and was owner of a large tract of forest in the Outaouais in the late nineteenth century.