Montreal's Nazi abortionist and his secret island in the St. Lawrence

  Time to discuss Paul-Emile LaLanne, the Nazi abortionist from Montreal who owned a Swastika-laden private island near Valleyfield.
  But first some general background that you should not skip even though you're tempted to.
  The world was jammed with loads of wild and weird Nazi-supporting parties in the 1930s, including in such places as France, the Netherlands and Romania.
  Euro-Nazis surely imagined taking over their countries if the Krauts won on the continent.
  So, unpleasant though they might have been, the European Nazi movements at least had some logic behind them.
  Other Nazi movements further afield must have had more obscure motives.
   It's not like Hitler had any imminent plans to take over Australia, Brazil or Quebec.
   Those movements were lead by attention-seeking contrarians who might've bumped their heads a few too many times playing dodgeball.
   Our biggest Nazi maniac in Montreal was Adrien Arcand.
   He was funded by another charming fellow named Dr. Paul Émile LaLanne who had an abortion clinic at 2009 Sherbrooke E. He appears to have lived in the same building, although one biographer reports that he lived in Cote des Neiges.
  LaLanne reportedly charged $1,000 per operation, which was the equivalent of about $16,000 today.
   Lalanne was occasionally nabbed but nothing seems to have happened to him.
   He provided an abortion to 14-year-old Gabby Gross at his Sherbrooke Street office in 1920. Gross, who had moved with her family from England a decade earlier, died in hospital later.  Lalanne ws held responsible but there is no indication that he was punished, as his practice continued.
   He was charged with performing an abortion in January 1932 but one year later was acquitted.
 It's unclear how he got away with this, as abortion was strictly forbidden but it is said that he gave solid contributions to the church to turn a blind eye.
   LaLanne had a cottage/Nazi clubhouse on an island near Valleyfield/St. Barbe just upstream from Montreal called Ile du Diable.
   There are about a half dozen small islands in that part of the St. Lawrence. The one he inhabited is now known as Beaubien Island.
   His famous island was said to have a big portrait of Hitler on the wall and various Nazi carvings around the home, like a cheesy Ilsa She Wolf movie set.
  He wasn't exactly secret about his political leanings, as delivered a speech in Ottawa called Why We Should Oppose The Jew in 1935, listing himself as "Member of Lafontaine Assembly" and "Native Sons of Canada."
    According to the excellent Rod Vienneau, the second owner of Devil's Island was l’Abbé père Demouchel of Valleyfield.
  LaLanne died in 1951 at the age of 68, which means he was in his 50s during most of his silliness during the 1930s.