James Thomas Byrnes, C.M., O.B.C.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Jim Byrnes is an award-winning blues musician, a seasoned actor and a champion of charity work. Despite a life-changing accident in 1972, he has continued performing, winning multiple Juno and Maple Blues Awards and enthralling audiences on screen and on stage. A BC Entertainment Hall of Fame inductee, he is also exceedingly generous with his time and talents and supports many charitable organizations and causes, including health promotion, homelessness reduction, addiction care, gang recruitment prevention, and music and art therapy.