The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Brook, Thornton and Brook
Brook, Thorton and Brook were a shipping agency company located on 79 Great Tower
Street, London. In this despatch, the company directs Lytton's attention to the vessel Athelstan which will be arriving in Vancouver Island to receive cargo.1
1. Samuel Straker, Strakers' annual mercantile ship &insurance register, 1862, p.33; Brook, Thornton and Brook to Lytton, 1 March 1859, CO 305/13, 2680, p.224.