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BMO Financial Group will announce its third quarter financial results and hold its investor community conference call on Tuesday, August 22, 2006.

�         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 EDT, Tuesday, September 5, 2006, by calling 1 (888) 742-2491 or (416) 695-5292 and entering passcode 6790#.

-        The webcast will be available at www.bmo.com/investorrelations until Monday, November 27, 2006.

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