1. Letter from William J. Cullinan of Montreal, Quebec (written by Mary Cullinan, daughter) of Montreal, Quebec on May 10, 1981.
2. Letter from Teresa (Terry) Cullinan (c1969-) of Ottawa, Ontario dated October 15, 1993.
3. Men of Canada by Success or Example, The Canadian Album (©1893 Bradley, Garretson Col: Brantford, Ontario), p. 478 - see photograph and biography listed under Andrew Cullin.
4. Information taken from records of the Royal Irish Constabulary.
5. Information taken from parish registers for Corofin, County Clare, Ireland.
6. They’ve Got to Find Me Guilty, by Slattery
7. Cemetery Listings--Montréal; gravestone inscriptions from Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.
8. Obituaries from Montreal Gazette (various dates) .
9. The French Canadians.

Comments:

1. This surname is often spelled Cullin and Cullen in various sources. No connection has been drawn with the other Cullinans in Montreal whose family also used the surname Cullen interchangeably. See Plate CV.
2. Andrew Patrick Cullinan (1836-1905) was born near Corofin, in the Parish of Killnaboye, County Clare, Ireland. "He was born in the Parish of Killeneboye, County Clare, Ireland and at an early age joined the constabulary. Being dissatisfied with the force as it then existed, he resigned and immigrated to America after spending two years in the neighbourhood of Worcester, Massachusetts. He came to Montreal and at once made application to be taken on the city police force (-Montreal Gazette, February 11, 1905)".
3. "Chief Detective, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His education was begun and completed in the primary schools in Ireland. When his father died, Andrew Cullinan had very little for the support of the family, and he was then obliged to work on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he joined the Royal Irish Constabulary, in which he remained for some time. Owing to his superior conduct and attention to duty he received testimonials from his superior officers and left the force with an excellent character. At the age of twenty-three he went to the United States and worked on a farm in Massachusetts. He was, at this time, extremely attached to the temperance cause, and is still temperate in all his habits, to which his success is largely due. In 1855 he went to Munson, in the State of Massachusetts, and, after a short sojourn there, left with the intention of going to the Southern States, and, in doing so, came by way of Montreal, where he stopped to visit his brother, who persuaded him to remain in that city and join the police force, which he did. He was appointed to look after the Sunday Liquor Law, and was the first to put it in force in the city.
   He called upon the saloons to obey the law, had a good many of them fined, and called the attention of the Government to the number of unlicensed places in Montreal, and a law was passed that the Recorder of the city could use his jurisdiction in having those cases tried before him, when formerly they were tried by the Police Magistrate.
   In 1865 he was appointed detective, and in 1881 chief detective. He has had under his direction the celebrated murder case of Honorable Thomas D'Arcy McGee. There is probably no man in the Dominion of Canada to-day better adapted to this particular profession than is this widely-known Montreal detective. In religion he is a Roman Catholic (-Men of Canada)."
4. Andrew Patrick Cullinan (Rev.) (1871-1950). Roman Catholic Priest was ordained in 1898. In 1898, he went to Rome to pursue his ecclesiastical studies at the Canadian College. In 1912, he founded Saint Dominic's Parish in Montreal.