FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Report of Foreign Issuer
Pursuant
to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of November, 2006
Commission File Number: 001-02413
Canadian
National Railway Company
(Translation of registrants name into English)
935 de
la Gauchetiere Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3B 2M9
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Canadian National Railway Company
Table of Contents
Item 1 | Press
Release dated November 30, 2006, titled CN
Board of Directors approves one-year contract extension for companys president and chief executive officer. |
Item 1
News | |
North Americas Railroad | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Stock symbols: TSX: CNR / NYSE: CNI | |
www.cn.ca |
CN Board of Directors approves one-year contract
extension
for companys president and chief executive officer
MONTREAL, Nov. 30, 2006 David G. A. McLean, chairman of the board of directors of CN, announced today that the companys directors and E. Hunter Harrison, president and chief executive officer of CN, have agreed to a one-year contract extension for Harrison through Dec. 31, 2009.
Harrison had signed a five-year employment contract with CN in 2004 expiring at the end of 2008.
McLean said: The board of directors is pleased to have reached agreement on this contract extension with Hunter Harrison. Hunter has been a tremendous leader, transforming CN into one of the continents leading railroads.
Harrison became president and chief executive officer of CN on Jan. 1, 2003. He joined CN as executive vice-president and chief operating officer in March 1998, and served in that position until December 2002. He has been a director of CN since December 1999.
Before coming to CN, Harrison was a director and president and chief executive officer of Illinois Central Corporation (IC) and Illinois Central Railroad Company between 1993 and 1998. CN entered an agreement to purchase IC in February 1998 and assumed control of the railroad in July 1999.
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 Or-leans, 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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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Canadian National Railway Company | ||||
Date: November 30, 2006 | By: | /s/ Cristina Circelli | ||
Name: | Cristina Circelli | |||
Title: | Deputy
Corporate Secretary and General Counsel |