Pictures from work at MacMillan Bloedel / Weyerhaeuser

Click on the pictures for a larger image. There is also a special report of the trip to Weyerhaeuser's head office in Federal Way and a page with pages about getting to work. Also take a look at Images of my office (before we moved to a different floor in January 1999).

Picture	Date	Description
	21-Dec-1999	Cathedral Place, head office of Weyerhaeuser Canada (former MacMillan Bloedel). This is where Ton works since 1996.
	07-Jan-2000	Year 2000 Information Centre team members Marion Bollhorst (left) and Graham VanderHoek (right). Graham is the program manager. Ton's desk is located in the right lower corner.
	07-Jan-2000	Ton's desk (cubicle).
	07-Jan-2000	Ton's desk. He, a new email just arrived.
	07-Jan-2000	Ton's desk from a different angle with the window in the background. Through the window you can see a part of Hotel Vancouver, located across the street.
	07-Jan-2000	Graham's desk.
	07-Jan-2000	A look outside the window from Ton's desk. This is the corner of Hornby Street and West Georgia Street. With the Vancouver Art Gallery in the background. At the right side of the square a film crew is working on some scenes for a motion picture. Filming takes place here almost every week.
	07-Jan-2000	Vancouver Art Gallery.
	20-Dec-1999	As part of the Year 2000 rollover a special Call Centre  (Y2K Management Centre) was prepared at Canada's head office of Weyerhaeuser. Ton had to work here too during the night of the new millennium. On the picture from left to right: Gord Dupuis, Luc Mortier and Stew Woolverton.
	20-Dec-1999	Norene Campion worked at the same floor as Ton. Norene and Ton were responsible for the Year 2000 program for two division of Weyerhauser (former macMillan Bloedel). Norene for Sales & Distribution and Ton for all 22 head office departments.
	20-Dec-1999	After the merger between MacMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaeuser Company all logos had to be replaced like the one for Information Technology at head office in Vancouver, Canada.
	20-Dec-1999	The Call Centre staff is ready for the Y2K rollover. Top row from left to right: Luc Mortier, Tim Zillmer, Craig Hafstein. Lower row: Gord Dupuis (team leader) and Stew Woolverton. It was a great opportunity and a lot of fun to work with these guys.
	23-Dec-1999	Gord Dupuis with his Santa hat.
	20-Dec-1999	There was a Y2K learning quiz during the weekly IT communication session.
	20-Dec-1999	Everybody had to answer questions about the Y2K preparation. The answers were easy to answers if you had read the big Y2K book for IT.
	20-Dec-1999	Think, think, wrong, good ...
	20-Dec-1999	Concentrate ...
	21-Dec-1999	Marion Bollhorst (Ton's colleague at the year 2000 Information Centre) and Ton were dressed as M&M's (the symbolic Y2K candy) and handed out he prizes for the quiz (Weyerhaeuser calculators and a Y2K vest).
	21-Dec-1999	There was another Y2K group knowledge session the next day.
	21-Dec-1999	The people from the IT department in Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island) were video-conferenced in the meeting.
	20-Dec-1999	Ton is showing his Y2K vest with special logo.
	20-Dec-1999	Looking out the window at the Y2K management Centre at Cathedral Place (Vancouver).
	20-Dec-1999	Looking out another window at the Y2K management Centre at Cathedral Place (Vancouver). Silvester Stallone was filming here today, right down at the corner of the street.
	20-Dec-1999	Looking out the window at the Y2K management Centre at Cathedral Place (Vancouver) in the direction of North Vancouver.
	21-Dec-1999	The same picture zoomed in to get a better view of Grouse Mountain (the next day).
	30-Dec-1999	Dinner at Earls On Top (Robson Street in Vancouver) with Graham VanderHoek (Y2K program manager), his wife Debbie and daughters Elaine and Alana.
	02-Jan-2000	Graham (right) and Ton (left) making the 'V' sign for Victory in the Y2K Management Centre. We did it! After the Y2K rollover no major problems were detected and it looks like the program has been very successful.

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