{"id":730,"date":"2011-10-16T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccmm.sodadesign.com\/?page_id=730"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:10:19","slug":"daniel-shiu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmms.ca\/staging\/9619\/veteran-stories\/army\/daniel-shiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Shiu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Do Gay\u00a0Shiu was born in\u00a0Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on June 11, 1925. He was the eldest child of Julia and Reverend CC Shiu. (His father, Rev. Shiu, was one of the few Chinese allowed into Canada during the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act having been\u00a0sponsored by the Methodist Church.)<\/p>\n

Shiu\u00a0joined the Army in September 1944 when he was only 19. He did his basic training in Maple Creek, Saskatchewan along with several other Chinese Canadian men. \u00a0It was there that Shiu\u00a0agreed to become a member of a very special unit — Force 136.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Shiu, Wireless operator in Force 136<\/p><\/div>\n

This unit was seconded to British Intelligence and operated under the radar. They were\u00a0to be trained in commando-style warfare with the goal of being inserted behind enemy lines. Force 136’s\u00a0destination would be Japanese-occupied South East Asia. And their goal would be to train and assist local resistance movements in sabotaging Japanese equipment and supply lines.<\/p>\n

Anyone\u00a0who signed up was\u00a0aware of\u00a0the ferocious reputation of the Japanese. And since, as Force 136 members they would be viewed\u00a0less like soldiers and more\u00a0like saboteurs, they knew that if caught they would likely be executed. Each man was handed a cyanide capsule for just such an unfortunate event.<\/p>\n

Shiu was\u00a0shipped first to\u00a0England and then on\u00a0to India where he continued his training in the brutal heat and humidity of the jungle. His mission was to go into Burma, which was occupied by the Japanese Army. His speciality was wireless operations and that helped him launch a career after the war.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Shiu, Japan surrendered in the middle of August 1945, and many of the Force 136 recruits from Canada were allowed to go home.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Shiu in India, 1945<\/p><\/div>\n

Back in Canada,\u00a0Shiu\u00a0joined the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals where he was stationed in Prince Rupert from 1947 to 1950. It was there that he met Margaret, whom he later married.<\/p>\n

Shiu spent his career constantly on the move.<\/p>\n

From Prince Rupert he was sent to the Vancouver Wireless Station at Ladner, B.C.<\/p>\n

Shiu was then posted temporarily to Ottawa where he attended Russian language classes. That was followed by an assignment to Alert on remote Ellesmere Island — an outpost at the top of the world\u00a0and the most northern Canadian military base. This time, his family stayed behind in Ladner while Shiu worked in signals intelligence operations at Alert.<\/p>\n

From Alert,\u00a0he was transferred back\u00a0in Ladner, and\u00a0worked shift work until the station at Ladner closed down. The family then packed up again and headed north as Shiu took an\u00a0assignment in\u00a0Inuvik. After three years, he\u00a0was posted to\u00a0Canadian Forces Station Masset.<\/p>\n

After the\u00a0Masset assignment, Shiu\u00a0was asked to return to\u00a0Alert once again. However, he opted to leave the Canadian Forces to work with the RCMP as a civilian member. In time, that branch of the RCMP became CSIS.<\/p>\n

Shiu passed away on November 17, 1998.<\/p>\n

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