He represented Melfort from 1948 to 1952 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal.
He worked as a teacher and school administrator in rural Saskatchewan, Nigeria and Saskatoon from 1935 to 1978.
[2] He was defeated by Clarence George Willis when he ran for election in the newly created riding of Melfort-Tisdale in 1952.
[3] Egnatoff ran for the leadership of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in 1954.
[4] From 1968 to 1975, he was professor and head of the department of educational administration at the University of Saskatchewan.