He was educated at the Barrie Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, and received a certification as a medical doctor.

He spent time in the Yukon gold fields and then practised medicine in Cookstown, Ontario from 1909 to 1911 and, from 1911, at The Pas.

[2] He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election held on October 22, 1912, in the nearly-created northern constituency of The Pas.

Orok won his seat by acclamation, and served as a backbench supporter of premier Rodmond Roblin's government.

Orok was again returned by acclamation through a deferred vote in the 1914 election,[1] after the Conservatives had won a majority government in the rest of the province.