Syrian chocolatier family opens new bureau in Antigonish

It started as a dream to reconstruct a family chocolate business.

That dream eventually grew into a little emporium for Peace By Chocolate, formed out of a shed in Antigonish, N.S.

But a Hadhad family didn’t stop there — and on Saturday, they will open their unequivocally own, entirely versed chocolate factory.

“Opening a new bureau is only also like a step in a highway that is huge,” Tareq Hadhad told CBC News. “Peace By Chocolate now is on a right track. What my family unequivocally wants is to have assent delivered to everybody.”

‘It’s unbelievable’

Hadhad’s father, Assam Hadhad, owned a successful chocolate business in Damascus, Syria, that employed 30 people and done shipments opposite a Middle East.

But a polite fight brought an finish to his business — and brought a Hadhad family to Canada.

Assam Hadhad strictly non-stop his chocolate bureau in this strew in Aug 2016. (Tom Murphy/CBC)

Soon, a family began to make chocolates for a internal market. Volunteers in Antigonish helped a Hadhads build their shed-turned-factory and a business exploded.

“It’s unbelievable. It’s unequivocally something over faith for me and my family,” Hadhad said.

“This summer, thousands of people they gathering and they came to Nova Scotia, they stopped by a family and they pronounced hello and took cinema with them. You can’t unequivocally suppose how heartwarming that was for my family.”

Company to sinecure some-more employees

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke about the family in a debate during a United Nations final year and even met with them in Sydney.

And only final week, Tareq Hadhad became a house member of Invest Nova Scotia.

The Hadhads were financially eccentric by a time their one-year anniversary in Canada rolled around in January, and they began contracting 10 people during their strew shop.

Now, Hadhad said they’ll be contracting during slightest 20 people during their new factory, that they’ve been building along Cloverville Road in Antigonish given a commencement of a year.

Hiring refugees opposite Canada for distribution

He also pronounced once a bureau is adult and running, they’ll be employing refugees opposite a nation to discharge their chocolate.

“We talked about a hurdles they have been facing, especially a denunciation and a employment.… We started articulate about employing them in distribution,” Hadhad said.

A representation of Peace by Chocolate’s handiwork. (CBC)

Hadhad pronounced his father is still a categorical chocolate-maker, and is training and overseeing a new staff.

“The humorous thing is, he’s training from a employees,” Hadhad pronounced chuckling, adding that his father has been picking adult on a denunciation from them.

“It means a lot for us as newcomers … It’s unequivocally sparkling times for us.”

Hadhad pronounced a town, friends and neighbours helped make a new bureau a reality.

“There is something unequivocally special about being in Antigonish,” he said.

“Peace By Chocolate might not tell a ubiquitous story, though it tells a others what is possible. It tells other communities opposite a nation what is probable when they come all together to support people who are journey war.”

The grand opening for Peace By Chocolate’s new factory begins during 2 p.m. on Saturday.

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