Canada's Largest Ranch For Sale

MERRITT, B.C. - Canada's largest cattle ranch, a sprawling spread 20 times the size of Vancouver, is up for sale for $75 million.

The 543,400-acre cattle ranch near Merritt, 120 miles northeast of Vancouver, is owned by the Woodward family. Ads call it a "world-class property encompassing a self-sustaining ranch . . . 256 square miles of Beautiful British Columbia."

Rumors of the sale began after the 1990 death of Charles "Chunky" Woodward, who transformed his family's five-store retail chain into Canada's largest regional department store, which is now

defunct.