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About Robert Orok
- Robert Dick Orok (October 2, 1878 - November 8, 1957) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1912 to 1915, as a member of the Conservative Party. Orok was born in Midhurst, Ontario, the son of William Orok and Mary Johnston.
- He was educated at the Barrie Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, and received certification as a medical doctor.
- Orok pursued post-graduate studies at Queen's University and the University of Edinburgh.
- 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.
- He also worked as a surgeon on the Hudson Bay Railway.
- In religion, Orok was a Presbyterian.
- In 1904, he married Louise M.
- Smith.
- In 1907, Orork married Bessie Vair.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.
- The constituency occupied 200,000 square miles (520,000 km2) at the time, and Orok claimed that it was the largest in the world.
- 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, after the Conservatives had won a majority government in the rest of the province. Roblin's administration was forced to resign in 1915 amid a serious corruption scandal.
- A new election was held, which the Liberals won in a landslide.
- Orok did not seek re-election.He served as a captain in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps and the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I.
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