re: gleasons, or glissantes

My mother's family is French-Canadian, my Mim (grandmother) spoke French. She was born in Bay City MI, and there was a large French-speaking group in Bay City. I speak it still. The glissantes or as I see gleasons are one and the same. In English we call them slippers. Since most of these French speakers never learned to read and write in French, people guessed at how to spell them. For example a cousin did a family tree and used Gramazeau for a last name. The name is actually GrandMaison but pronounced close to gramazeau. My family's version of French is called joual based on how they pronounce cheval (horse). The meat pie or tourtiere, pronounced tutcare in joual. I have a recipe for meatballs (boolot) or boulottes should anyone be interested I'd be glad to post it.