About

Our product
Chocolate used to be so valuable a commodity that the Aztecs used cocoa beans as currency. Now, we eat it. All of Le Chocolatier’s products are infused with a sense of chocolate as a precious luxury.

Le Chocolatier is a small, independent company based in Canmore, Alberta (near Banff, in the Canadian Rockies), which specializes in handcrafted Belgian chocolates. Begun in 2001, it was purchased by its current owners, John and Belinda Spear, in March 2004. John and Belinda began by making simple (but irresistible) chocolate bars in their basement, much like the founding owners had. Their starting product line included 10 flavours of chocolate bars and six kinds of truffles.

However, John’s passion for chocolate has led him to expand the company greatly, and Le Chocolatier rapidly outgrew the basement, moving into new, customized chocolate-making factory premises in November 2005. Here, the product line has expanded to include 20 chocolate bar flavours, 20 kinds of truffles, and 15 unique chocolate flavours with more arriving all the time. Sugar-free, lactose-free, and organic chocolate are all now produced.

With the recent purchase of two smaller chocolate makers, Le Chocolatier added many other chocolate-related goodies to its repertoire. And there is plenty more to come, as the team is always working on creating new ways to love chocolate.

We now offer our hand made Belgian chocolate products across Canada when you buy online from our website. Check our store regularly as we add new products to the list of old favourites.

The mission
To stretch the boundaries of creative chocolate making, bringing delicious, innovative, chocolate delights to as many people as possible.

The vision
To become big, but always remain personal. Always to produce the highest quality chocolate by using only the freshest ingredients. Not to “think outside the box” — but to recreate the box.