Eaton's Ninth Floor Restaurant

After being closed to the public for a quarter of a century, it was renovated and reopened as a special events venue with the Ile de France Restaurant in 2024.

The waitresses and loyal customers of the restaurant were the subject of a 1998 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Les Dames du 9e (The Ladies of the 9th).

The current owners, Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, had refused in the past to allow media or preservation groups to inspect the site.

[7] Adding to the uncertainty at the time, the former occupants of the site, Les Ailes de la Mode, went bankrupt and closed in 2014 (while later transformed into an extension of the Montreal Eaton Centre, there had been no plans for the ninth floor).

In September 2019 preservation advocate Gérald McNichols Tétreault launched a petition to measure public interest in reviving the space.

In March 2023,[10] Ivanhoe Cambridge, the owner of the Eaton Centre, announced the reopening of the iconic ninth Floor by the end of the year.