French Canadians of the generation before mine are still fairly culturally attched to the idea of liver being full of iron (I read somewhere it isn't necessarily significantly higher in iron than regular red meat), due to it being so dark, and, therefore, healthy. My generation is more "EW ICK FILTRATION ORGAN!" and we tend to shy away from it.

That is, indeed, odd. Montreal gets really muggy and hot in summer and I would NEVER let little kids out in that heat if I could provide them with decent shelter from it. That is just crazy.