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MEDIA ADVISORY - BMO Financial Group to Announce Third Quarter Results

BMO Financial Group will announce its third quarter financial results and hold its investor community conference call on Tuesday, August 23, 2005.

• Investor Community Conference Call
- Time: 2:30pm EDT
- The conference call will be available in a listen-only mode:
- via telephone at: 1 (888) 789-0089 or (416) 695-9753 (Toronto area)
- via the Internet at: www.bmo.com/investorrelations

• Presentation material referenced during the conference call will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations

• Conference Call Rebroadcast
- A rebroadcast of the investor community presentations will be available until midnight, Tuesday, September 6, 2005, by calling 1 (888) 742-2491 or (416) 695-5292 and entering passcode 1164#.
- The webcast will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations until Monday, November 28, 2005.

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