So many legends have been told about these pillars and their origin. When DB was growing up, she was told they were once the pillars that supported a huge iron gate for a big manor house that once sat on this property, overlooking the Don Valley, before East York was created. The woman who lived in the house died suddenly and the rest of the family moved away. It was abandoned for years - people even said it was haunted - but it was demolished after the war and the houses in this neighbourhood were built.
Another story, a bit on similar lines, is that a member of the Taylor family - who owned most of what is now East York - wanted to build a home for his great love on this land. They started with the gates and created the road but she died suddenly and the house was never built.
The true origin of the gates is much less interesting, unfortunately. They were placed by the developer as the entrance to a new planned community just after WWI. Rivercourt was originally designed around a series of semi-circular streets in the space between Donlands, Pape, and O’Connor. The Depression put a halt to the plans, and the Township eventually took over the land for back taxes and laid out straight northsouth streets, ignoring the original plan. However, one building in that new development did get built: the building at 39 Rivercourt Boulevard. It was built between 1922 and 1926 as a dance pavilion at the very centre of the development. It was later turned into a private home and can ben seen from the road if you look back behind the very modern structure that was placed at the front end of the property.
The cache is a nano, so bring your own pen. It is NOT on private property so please respect the pillars and the properties they are on. Use your geosenses and you should come up with the cache pretty quickly.