The infrared astronomy group at the Universite de Montreal has been involved in building instruments for the past 20 years, to support its own research projects or under contract with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation and the National Research Council. A camera for the detection of faint objects around nearby stars, a multiobject spectrograph for the 0.8pm to 2.5pm spectral range, and a wide field camera, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, have been designed recently and are described below. The triple-imager Trident
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