Hen Island (Ontario)

:"This article refers to Lake Erie's Hen Island. For the one located in Connecticut, see Hen Island (Connecticut)."

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.

Quinnebog Club

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 member's 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. There is a dormantary which is two stories where members of the Quinnibog fishing club retire for the night during the spring and fall meets where all member's of the club who can make the trip meet for the annual event.