The Company was founded by the British actor Edward Allen.
[1] They became pioneers as the first professional theatre company to perform in Canada.
They were followed by Joseph Quesnel's French language Les Jeunes Messieurs Canadiens (1789).
As there was no theatre playhouse in Montréal, the Allen's Company performed in a temporary locality in the assembly room of Simon Levy.
[2] It was a small company, and consisted of Edward Allen and his wife, John Bentley and his spouse, William Moore and his spouse Agnes McKay, Simon Clarke and the children of the actors, notably Andrew Allen, Étienne (Stephen) Bellair and Guillaume (William) Moreau-Mechtler.