Brantford police are asking the public for help in tracking down a missing man last seen in 1975.

It's been 41 years since 59-year-old Richard Henry Jones was last seen by his family. He was an 18-year-old college student at the time.

The man's sister contacted the Brantford Expositor in February 2016, hoping to find her brother. The paper contacted police, which conducted a "cursory" search of its data bases and found no records on the man or him being missing.

It also contacted Service Ontario and Canada Revenue Agency and both turned up no information on the man.

According to police, Jones was last seen in 1975 on Clench Avenue in Brantford. He went to Sheridan College in September that year and was in the graphic arts or graphic design program.

Police are publicizing the family's interest in hopes that "someone may know where the missing male is now living so that police can contact him to advise that his family are looking for him after all these years," it says in a release.

Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to call Detective Terry Shipp at 519-756-0113 x 2266.