Bowman is a village and municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada.

It is located in the Laurentian Hills, 72 kilometres (45 mi) north-east of Gatineau.

[4] 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.

[1] Bowman was affected by the 2010 Central Canada earthquake and suffered some damage to a 50 metre wide area of land near a bridge.

[5] Traffic on Route 307 was diverted while Transport Canada assessed the damage.