[1] He was born in Hedel and went to South Africa in 1891 to work as a clerk for the Netherlands-South African Railway Company.
In 1902, he moved to the United States, immigrating to Regina in 1907, where he worked in the real estate business.
From 1920 to 1923, Rink and his family lived in Vancouver, returning to Regina in the latter year.
He worked for a time as manager at Western Financial Agents and Regina Distributors Ltd. before being elected again to city council in 1931.
[1] Rink ran unsuccessfully as a Social Credit candidate in a provincial by-election held in 1938.