CN declares second-quarter 2005 dividend

    News Editors

    MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2005--CN announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a second-quarter 2005 dividend on the company's common shares outstanding. A quarterly dividend of twenty-five cents (C$0.25) per common share will be paid on June 30, 2005, to shareholders of record at the close of business on June 9, 2005.

    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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    Canadian National Railway Company (TSX:CNR) (NYSE:CNI)

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CONTACT: CN Mark Hallman (Media) System Director, Media Relations (905) 669-3384 OR CN Robert Noorigian (Investment Community) Vice-President, Investor Relations (514) 399-0052

KEYWORD: NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CANADA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: TRANSPORTATION DIVIDEND SOURCE: Canadian National Railway Company

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