CN to report and review its first-quarter 2005 financial results on Ap

    News Editors

    MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2005--CN will issue its first-quarter 2005 financial and operating results on April 20, 2005, shortly after 2 p.m. Eastern time (ET). Following the release, CN's senior officers will review the results and the company's outlook in a presentation/conference call/webcast starting at 3 p.m. ET April 20.

    Management will make its presentation in Toronto at the Four Seasons Hotel, Lancaster Room, 21 Avenue Road. Parties interested in participating in, or listening to, the presentation by telephone should dial 1-877-793-3791 by 2.55 p.m. ET April 20.

    E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer of CN, will lead the session. Joining him will be Claude Mongeau, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, and James Foote, executive vice-president, sales and marketing.

    CN will webcast the presentation live and provide supporting slides via the Investors' section of its website, www.cn.ca/investors. The slides will be posted at 2.30 p.m. ET April 20, and will be archived on the website until May 6, 2005. To access the slides and webcast, please click on Analyst Presentations.

    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

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