| Geography | |
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| Location | Lake Erie |
| Archipelago | Pelee Island Archipelago |
| Major islands | Pelee Island, East Sister Island and West Sister Island |
| Highest elevation | 571 ft (174 m) |
| Country | |
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Canada
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| Province | Ontario |
| County | Essex |
| Township | Pelee |
Hen Island is an island on Lake Erie in Ontario. There are three smaller islands, called "chickens," surrounding the island; their names are Big Chicken Island, Chick Island, and Little Chicken Island.
This small wooded Island is home to the Quinnebog Club, which owns the island. The Club was built in 1898, still exists and is active. The main clubhouse holds the dining hall and kitchen facilities as well as staff bedrooms on the second floor.
"The Pete Nowak lodge is where club members relax after a hard day of fishing. The lodge features a bar, at the west end of the building as well as an antique pool table and personal members' lockers that line the inside walls of the lodge. If you were to look in the guest registry you would find the names of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt who visited Hen Island during the history of the island." (Perhaps Abraham Lincoln visited the island, and maybe there was a structure there that housed a guest registry that survives until today. He would not have visited The Club in any capacity other than as a ghost if it was built in 1898, since his death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth preceded that by more than 30 years.)
The Club may have bought the island from either a certain "Colonel Blanchard", the first resident of the island [1], or Rudolph Siefield, an Ohio businessman[2].