Club and the Pickering Naturalists' Club. For her work as a prominent contributor to ornithological literature on the evening grosbeak and Lincoln's sparrow, the Society of Canadian Ornithologists bestow the annual "Doris Huestis Speirs Award" in her honor. Exercise for Psyche, the collection of Speirs' poems dating from 1922 to 1972, was published in 1973. Personal life Speirs affiliated with the Church of Christ, Scientist. She married firstly W. Gordon Mills (died 1916), an executive with Eaton's, who was also a poet, art critic and elected member of the Art Gallery of Toronto. She met J. Murray Speirs while he was in graduate school studying ornithology; they married in 1939, and he subsequently became a professor of zoology at the University of Toronto. Speirs had two children. She died in Ajax, Ontario in 1989. External links References 1894 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Canadian poets Artists from Toronto Canadian ornithologists Women ornithologists Canadian women poets Canadian women painters Canadian art collectors Women art collectors Canadian Christian Scientists Writers from Toronto 20th-century Canadian women writers 20th-century Canadian painters 20th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian zoologists