CraigMarlatt.com is what happens when a personal homepage refuses to stay small.
Visit Craig Marlatt’s Canada pages
The broader site acts as a gateway to several parts of Marlatt’s life, but the Canada section became a substantial reference collection in its own right.
Its pages cover national geography, government, military installations, historical events, borders, symbols, and other civic material. Some pages have been cited by educational material and linked from discussions years after they were created.
That is a familiar pattern on the older Web: one person’s notes gradually become public reference infrastructure.
Personal publishing without a narrow niche
Modern publishing advice constantly tells people to pick a niche and stay inside it.
Personal homepages ignored that advice before it existed.
Marlatt’s site branches into Canada, scouting, school material, Legion pages, local Uxbridge subjects, community organizations, and other areas connected to his own interests and work.
That breadth is part of the historical value.
The Web once gave people a place where unrelated interests could remain related simply because the same person cared about all of them.
The Canada material also illustrates why independent reference sites mattered. A page about military bases, for example, could be assembled and maintained without waiting for a publisher to decide the subject deserved a book. A border-history page could exist because one researcher wanted it to exist.
The result might not look institutional, but it could still become useful enough to be cited elsewhere.
That happened repeatedly across the early Web.
CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list contains hundreds of examples where personal publishing quietly crossed into reference publishing.
Craig Marlatt’s Canada pages belong in that category.
They are not merely an old homepage preserved for nostalgia.
They show how one person’s curiosity could grow into a body of public material that other people actually used.