Peace by Chocolate

Peace by Chocolate is a Syrian-Canadian chocolatier company based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company was founded in 2016 by Tareq Hadhad, the son of a Syrian chocolatier, after moving to Canada as a refugee.

History
The Hadhad family began making chocolate in 1986 when Essam Hadhad opened a factory in Damascus. 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. Upon arriving in Canada, Essam's son Tareq opened a new chocolate company in Antigonish.

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. On March 5, 2021, the company opened a storefront along the Halifax Waterfront.

In popular culture
Jon Tattrie wrote a book about the Hadhad company in 2020. A film adaptation of the family's story, also called Peace by Chocolate, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021.

In 2022, Tareq Hadhad was named as a panelist on Canada Reads, advocating for Omar El Akkad's novel What Strange Paradise.

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.