This month’s cover features a map of the city of London, Ontario, surveyed and drawn by Sam’l Peters, P.L.S.. The map was published by Geo. Railton for the London Directory in 1856.

The map is part of the London Historic Maps Collection held at Archives and Special Collections, Western Libraries, Western University. The collection features 40 historical maps of the London, Ontario, area from 1800 to 1900. The maps were digitized by the Western Libraries Map and Data Centre. More information is available at https://ir.lib.uwo.ca /mdc-London-maps/.