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CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TOSECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Kenneth G. Townsend, President, Chief Executive Officer and
  Chief Financial Officer of McNab Creek Gold Corp., certify that:

|1.  | I have reviewed this quarterly
        report on Form 10-QSB of McNab Creek Gold Corp.;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
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|2.  | Based on my knowledge, this
        report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit
        to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light
        of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading
        with respect to the period covered by this report;                                                                                       
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|3.  | Based on my knowledge,
        the financial statements, and other financial information included in
        this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition,
        results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of,
        and for, the periods presented in this report;                                                                                               
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|4.  | The small business
        issuer's other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing
        and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange
        Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the small business issuer and have:                                                                                                                                                     
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|(a) | designed such disclosure
        controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures
        to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information
        relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries,
        is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during
        the period in which this report is being prepared;
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|(b) | evaluated the effectiveness
        of the small business issuer's disclosure controls and procedures and
        presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
        disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered
        by this report based on such evaluation; and                                                                                                   
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|(c) | disclosed in this report any change in the small business
        issuer's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
        the small business issuer's most recent fiscal quarter (the small business
        issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has
        materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
        small business issuer's internal control over financial reporting; and
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|5.  | The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s)
        and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal
        control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors
        and the audit committee of the small business issuer's board of directors
        (or persons performing the equivalent functions):                                                                                                        
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|(a) | all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses
        in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting
        which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer's
        ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information;
        and                                                                                                                                                       
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|(b) | any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management
        or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer's
        internal control over financial reporting.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      



|August 14, 2006             
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|*/s/ Kenneth G. Townsend*   
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|Kenneth G. Townsend,        
|President, C.E.O. and C.F.O.

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