Dramatisation of Lillian Miner (aka Queen Lill) describing her brothel

My name, my real name is Lillian Miner, but folks here know me as Queen Lill because this is my border hotel, my line house, as they call it. My place is right on the border and it bears the beautiful name PALACE OF SIN or palais de péchés in French-Canadian.

Yes it’s true I have many faithful male customers who come to enjoy my love establishment, half of which is in Canada and half in the United States. The Boston Montréal line stops here and just my  luck the Canadian Pacific Railway stops right at my door, so we can refresh and exercise the gentlemen on the international line.

Even though I first made my business in Boston. I knew this area well because I was born in Stevens Mills near Richford-Abercorn. To survive I had to make like a lot of penniless American girls at the time. I sold my body in luxury hotels.

The other girls and I worked in a fabulous real bordello Faneuil Hall in Boston and I worked my way up to madam and then in 1919 the fluke of prohibition. You see I’m legal here so I can serve alcoholic beverages to my American friends on the Canadian side and I do offer luxury rooms for single or double occupancy depending on demand.

My girls are good American professionals. In 1925 the border officials from both sides raided my house at three o’clock in the morning. What a surprise for me and five of my clients, two adulterous couples and one naked American minor drinking beer on the US side.