Booklet Labels & Continuous DesignsBooklet Panes are small sheets (panes) of stamps bound in booklets. 
Queen Elizabeth II pane of 1¢ Wilding portrait, #337, from 1954-62 has the slogan “Avoid loss – use postal money orders” in both official languages, on one tab. Postal rate for regular letters at the time was 3¢, rising to 4¢ and later 5¢ during the period. 
This pane of Maple Leaves definitives in use 1982-89 has the same slogan in English and French, one per label: “Collect Canadian Stamps”. It contains 2 of #940 (5¢), and 1 each of #944 (10¢) & #945 (30¢). 
This 1987 pane of Parliament Building definitives has 2 different slogans, in both English and French in each of 2 tabs: “The stamps of Canada – worth collecting” and “Remember to use the Postal Code”. Individual explanatory notes for each stamp was used in the selvedge beginning in 1983. 
Individual descriptions were printed in the selvedge of the booklet of Canadian Forts 32¢ stamps in 1983 (#983-992). Since there are 10 different forts, there are 10 different notes, in English and French for each. The printer’s information is on the end piece. Note that the stamps are different widths too. This was the first time Canada Post issued commemorative stamps in a booklet. 
The Klondike Gold Rush Commemoratives mini sheet from 1996, have English notes along the top selvedge & French along the bottom. Because the booklet sheet is so large, I am showing an entire sheet, and just the top row somewhat larger (English margin notes). There are also mining tools and weigh scales in the corners and traffic lights with printer’s information at one end. 
The first non-souvenir panes with selvedge art were produced in the booklet of Mail Trucks, in 1990.The booklet had 3 sheets with stamps, #1272 &1273, among other pages; the adhesive covered the back of the entire stamp sheet. Two of the sheets had 8 stamps plus selvedge design, and the last one had 9 stamps (shown), making a total of 25 in the booklet. The other designs in the borders were canceling hammers and an early Airmail stamp. 
A similar treatment was used for the NHL 75th Anniversary booklet in 1992. However, this time, they used one stamp design per sheet: The Early Years 1917-1942, the Six Team Years 1942 to 1967, and last The Expansion Years 1967-1992. Each stamp sheet had adhesive over its entire back, and was folded to fit in the booklet. The All-Time All-Stars of each section were depicted to the left of the group of stamps, and a trophy to the right. (I have omitted that side.) The sheet shown is of #1443, the Early Years, with the Prince of Wales Trophy, awarded to the team that wins the Wales Conference play-offs. The Six Team Years, #1444, shows the Art Ross Trophy for the high scorer of the season. And the Expansion Years, #1445, shows the Clarence Campbell bowl, awarded to the team that wins the Campbell Conference play-offs. 
This group shows the 3 different stamps of the NHL: #1443, 1444 & 1445. Other NHL stamps came out in mini sheets of 6, shown later on this page. 
Continuous Designs from selvedge to stamps first appeared with the Year of the Family in 1994. It is not a strip of stamps however; each of the 5 stamps is separate from the others. But the stamps are perforated to punch out of the continuous selvedge artwork. Overall size of the sheet is 177mm x 133mm (7” x 5 ¼”). 
Fortress of Louisbourg is a double set of 5 continuous-design stamps in a booklet (note there are no white outlines for each one in each group), with descriptions of each part in English & French in the selvedge. They also have no denomination, but were issued as 43¢. The pane shown is 230 mm long by 95 mm high. 
This block of 4 Blueberries #1349 is a sample of other continuous designs. This was the first value in a set of 7 low value definitives up to 25¢. Each denomination was issued in panes of 100 with a continuous design along the rows, but they were not continuous vertically. The top edge of the top row continues on into the sky in the selvedge; the bottom selvedge was a sold green block. 
Tabs that continue a stamp design were used in the Confederation Bridge pair in 1997, #1645-46. But it is not quite continuous; there is a white space around each stamp, and around each label. The top sample is of the top selvedge, showing seagulls. The bottom selvedge is shown in the bottom image with a ship & a large section of the bridge. The stamps are not se-tenant because the label separates them; only vertical pairs of the same side of the bridge are possible. Mini Sheets with continuous Designs were issued: 
Above is a sheet of 12 stamps of whales, #1868-71, where the design continues across pairs, but there are some white areas to divide them, as is shown in the block of 4. The stamp design also continues into the selvedge. See more about this sheet in Traffic Lights. Large tabs A sequence of mini sheets of NHL All-Stars with printed labels started with #1838a; they all had 6 players on stamps and a larger picture of each on labels, the first ones on 6 labels, the others on 3. The stamps are square with a circle containing the image. 
This mini sheet of NHL All Stars, #1838a-f, from 2000 has the tabs with the larger pictures of the players on the outside, and the 46¢ stamps in the middle 6 squares.The red and blue lines of the rink are shown behind the stamps and pictures, and Maple Leaf Gardens and the Air Canada Centre appear in the top selvedge. 
The second sheet of 6, #1885a-f from 2001, has three labels with six pictures on the inside, with the 47¢ stamps on the outside. This became the standard layout of tabs for the remaining sheets. Top & bottom selvedge here shows game action. The other NHL All-Stars sheets are:
Unique Offset Tabs 
Special, narrow labels were done with #1509, the pane of Governor General Jeanne Sauvé stamps in 1994 (unique at the time). The four different labels were not the same size as the stamps, and each mentioned a different phase of her life. Notice how the perforation for tabs shows in the top margin. 
The uniqueness wore off soon enough and more complex tab designs arrived with #1654, Canadian Industrial Design stamps in 1997. The sheet had 24 tabs in a sheet of 24 stamps. There were 12 different tabs, each one twice, which was printed in a different colour. The labels were staggered on alternating rows as they had been in Governor General Jeanne Sauvé. Each stamp has the same 4 items, with letter designations, and each tab has 2 items, continuing the letter designations for each item on them; in the selvedge at top & bottom are corresponding letters with the names of the designers of the items. Labels that continue a design from tab to stamp: 
The Mounties stamps in 1998, #1736 & 1737, also had 2 tab designs. The tabs themselves are not staggered, but the printing in them is. One of the labels continues the design from one stamp to another with the musical ride. Although the stamps have a white outline, the Musical Ride label image continues by interrupting the white edge. The second tab is the RCMP badge. The musical ride tab also continues into the selvedge where the tab is the first in the row. For this duo, the tab separates the horizontal pairs, but vertical se-tenant pairs are possible because they are in a checker-board lay-out aside from the labels. Labels that separate only 
The Great Peace of Montreal, #1915 from 2001, has labels between stamps but just as decorations, not to continue the design. The stamp celebrates the 300 Anniversary of a Peace agreement between the French colonists and 30 Native groups in 1701. 
This is a sheet of 8 to honour the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. There are 2 of each of the 4 designs down the middle, with details of the architectural drawings in a label on the left, and the architect in another tab on the right. Top to bottom they are: Arthur Erickson, Douglas Cardinal, Raymond Moriyama and Moshe Safdie. You note that horizontal pairs are 2 of the same stamp, and vertical pairs are different ones. Return from Labels to Selvedge Art
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