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Surveyors work next to CP Rail trains which are parked on the train tracks in Toronto on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press

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You tend to see a lot of the same names over and over when you look at lists of dividend growth stocks – Metro Inc., Canadian National Railway, Alimentation Couche-Tard, Enbridge, Telus and more.

Looking for new blood in the dividend growth area? One way to build a list of candidates for further research is to cross reference the one- and five-year dividend growth rates for blue chip stocks. The quarry: Companies with much higher growth rates in the past year than over the previous five years. Here are some names that came up after running this screen on stocks in the S&P/TSX 60 index on Globeinvestor.com:

- Canadian Pacific Railway (CP): The one-year growth rate according to Globeinvestor.com was almost 43 per cent, second-best among the 60 index members behind Barrick Gold. CP's five-year annualized growth rate was 10.8 per cent. Remember that rival Canadian National Railway has the stronger long-term record of dividend growth.

- Power Corp. of Canada (POW): This company was a dividend growth stalwart for many years leading up to the global financial crisis. The quarterly payout was then held steady for six years until a growth re-start in 2015. The one-year growth rate is 7.6 per cent, compared to 2.9 per cent over the past five years.

- Sun Life Financial (SLF): Like Power Corp., Sun Life is a financial company that took several years after the financial crisis to get its dividend growth engine working again. The one-year growth rate was 7.7 per cent, compared to a five-year rate of 3.1 per cent.

- TransCanada Corp. (TRP): Not as dramatic an improvement as the previously mentioned stocks, but still noteworthy. The one-year growth rate is 10.6 per cent, compared to 7.3 per cent annually over the past five years.

- Precious metal stocks: Barrick Gold led the 60 index in dividend increases in the past year with a hike of 50 per cent. Other miners with big dividend increases over the past year included Silver Wheaton and Agnico Eagle Mines, up 40 and 25 per cent, respectively. Weak gold prices forced each of this trio to cut dividends during the past five years.

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