STELLARTON – Tareq Hadhad still remembers the smell of jasmine after the rain as he walked after dark through the ancient city of Damascus.
It’s a smell that brings back memories of happier times of life in Syria.
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Read MoreIt’s a long way from a refugee camp in the Middle East to a chocolate factory in Atlantic Canada. But for the Hadhad family, it’s been a smooth transition.
Their Antigonish N.S., business is a success, thanks in part, to a shout out from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at last September’s United Nations summit on refugees.
Read MoreIsam Hadhad and his family, Syrian refugees from the war that destroyed their factory and home, found a “community of the heart” in a small town.
Before the missiles came and destroyed his family’s chocolate factory in Damascus in early 2013, pretty much the only thing Tareq Hadhad knew about Canada was the little he’d picked up from MTV.
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