JIM SHOCKEY

CLASS OF 2024 - DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI INDUCTEE

Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Jim Shockey was an accomplished competitive swimmer. After moving to Vancouver, he became a leading member of the powerful B.C. men’s water polo teams of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s which won provincial, regional and national titles. Jim competed as a member of the Canadian men's national team at the 1978 and 1982 World Aquatic Championships. A retired member of the Canadian Armed Forces, he is also well-know as a world-famous hunting guide and outfitter, for his conservation work, as well as an outdoor writer, a television producer and host for many popular hunting shows, and also as one of the world’s foremost experts on the Ethnocentric Folk Art forms from Western Canada.  Jim currently resides on Vancouver Island and continues to work as an outfitter and producer for his TV shows and assisting his non-profit agency in operating his Hand of Man Museum.