 Arrol was a radio announcer in Vancouver and Calgary in the 1940s and 1950s until graduating from University of British Columbia and teachers college, teaching in Vancouver in the early 1960s and for the Scarborough Board of Education (at Woburn Collegiate Institute) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He also was a reporter with the Daily Colonist in Victoria BC in the mid-1960s.Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party