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Industry | Confectionery production |
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Founded | 2016 |
Founder | Tareq Hadhad |
Headquarters | Antigonish, Nova Scotia , Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Food ( Chocolate) |
Website |
peacebychocolate |
Peace by Chocolate is a Syrian-Canadian chocolatier company based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. [1] The company was founded in 2016 by Tareq Hadhad, the son of a Syrian chocolatier, after moving to Canada as a refugee. [2] [3] [4]
The Hadhad family began making chocolate in 1986 when Essam Hadhad opened a factory in Damascus. [5] The Hadhad family's chocolate-making facilities in Syria were bombed, they lived as refugees in Lebanon for three years before moving to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, in 2016. [6] Upon arriving in Canada, Essam's son Tareq opened a new chocolate company in Antigonish. [5]
In September 2020, Hadhad won a National Entrepreneurship Award for his positive impact as a new Canadian, and was one of the recipients of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards of 2020. [7] [8] On March 5, 2021, the company opened a storefront along the Halifax Waterfront. [9]
Jon Tattrie wrote a book about the Hadhad company in 2020. [10] A film adaptation of the family's story, also called Peace by Chocolate, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. [11]
In 2022, Tareq Hadhad was named as a panelist on Canada Reads, advocating for Omar El Akkad's novel What Strange Paradise. [12]
In March 2023, during United States President Joe Biden’s trip to Ottawa, Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave him a chocolate bar from Peace by Chocolate as a gift. [13]