History
The riding was created in 1968 from Laval and was known as Duvernay until 1990 when it became Laval East. Upon redistribution in 2003 it was renamed Alfred-Pellan, and lost a small part of its territory to the newly created Marc-Aurèle-Fortin riding.
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