What is the definition of a “worker” under the BC Workmen’s Compensation Act?

Section 1 of the Act permits this interpretation of the word “worker”. It includes: (a) a person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship, written or oral, express or implied, whether by way of manual labour or otherwise; That is broad enough to include persons who do not reside or work in British Columbia and whose contract of service is made anywhere. There is no express limit to the application of the Act. But constitutionally there must be a limit. The Act is “in substance a scheme for securing a civil right within the Province”: per Lord Haldane in Workmen’s Compensation Board v. C.P.R. Co. (1919), 1919 CanLII 411 (UK JCPC), 48 D.L.R. 218 at p. 222, [1919] 3 W.W.R. 167 at p. 181, [1920] A.C. 184.