As a UBC historian, David Breen published Alberta's Petroleum Industry And The Conservation Board and also co-wrote The Pacific National Exhibition: An Illustrated History (UBC Press, 1982) and Vancouver's Fair: An Administrative and Political History of the Pacific National Exhibition (UBC Press, 1982), both with Kenneth Coates.

[Photo: The Miracle Mile: Bannister-Landy, 1954]

[BCBW 1995] "Photography"

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Vancouver's Fair: An Administrative and Political History of the Pacific National Exhibition