 Sharing its name with Turin, Italy, an Olympic flag was erected in the hamlet to coincide with the 2006 Winter Olympics.It was founded in 1908 and named after the first settler's horse.As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Turin recorded a population of 119 living in 37 of its 41 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 106.