It could conduct the business of the burial benefit and the superannuation benefit better than any private company or friendly society, because it could offer a surer guarantee and the business is routine; Mr. Gladstone's excellent annuity scheme has remained sterile only because it has not been pushed, and the canvasser and collector are indispensable in working-class insurance.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
I always look on mine as my best canvasser!
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
He was originally a printer, then a newspaper proprietor and editor; but fate had been unkind to him, and in the days of his presidency he had come to be an advertisement canvasser.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann