CN declares fourth-quarter 2006 dividend

MONTREAL, Oct. 19, 2006 — CN announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a fourth-quarter 2006 dividend on the company's common shares outstanding. A quarterly dividend of sixteen-and-one-quarter cents (C$0.1625) per common share will be paid on Dec. 29, 2006, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 8, 2006.

About CN

CN — Canadian National Railway Company — spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico, serving the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the key cities of Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., Green Bay, Wis., Minneapolis/St. Paul, Memphis, St. Louis, and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America.

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