• The Brockmann’s story begins in Germany where Willibald Brockmann was a confectioner.
• Willy’s son, Norbert had always wanted to be a carpenter, but in Germany, confectionery was a trade passed down from one generation to the next.
• So, how did the Brockmann’s delicious chocolates end up on the west coast of Canada?
• Norbert’s uncle had bought a property in Horseshoe Bay on Vancouver Island and eventually convinced Norbert and his wife Marianne to move to Canada in 1980 – he claimed that it was just like Bavaria, plus the ocean!
• After high school, one of the couple’s daughters, Kathrin, moved back to Germany to do an apprenticeship as a chocolatier, she also studied in London and traveled some more, but her roots are here on the west coast where she eventually returned to.