I've been trying to learn the ins and outs of QGIS for several years now. I am somewhat familiar with the software but certainly not an expert.

I have recently downloaded a section of the Canadian Dominion Land Survey from the province of Manitoba. For example, this file: http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/quarter_sec/shp_zip_files/reynolds_shp.zip

I can import a layer (for example: sec_line_line.shp) and it asks me to specify the CRS. the one that is selected by default is WGS 84 - EPSG:4326. If I use this CRS I can export the new layer as a KML file. But when I import the KML file into google earth I see lines all over the globe.

I then try adding the OpenLayers Google Maps satellite raster and it complains that "Error: latitude or longitude exceeded limits". I assume this is because google maps rasters want to be in EPSG:3857. So I change the CRS of the project to EPSG:3857, select on-the-fly CRS transformation and add the OpenLayers map source. The map source loads fine, but now I can't see the original DLS data I loaded before (sec_line_line.shp)

I don't understand why this is, or what I can do to fix the issue. Any/all help will be greatly appreciated.

For your info, I'm using QGIS 2.18 on Ubuntu 16.4 (Ubuntu 14.4 also does the same thing)

I've been trying to learn the ins and outs of QGIS for several years now. I am somewhat familiar with the software but certainly not an expert.

I have recently downloaded a section of the Canadian Dominion Land Survey from the province of Manitoba. For example, this file: http://mli2.gov.mb.ca/quarter_sec/shp_zip_files/reynolds_shp.zip

I can import a layer (for example: sec_line_line.shp) and it asks me to specify the CRS. the one that is selected by default is WGS 84 - EPSG:4326. If I use this CRS I can export the new layer as a KML file. But when I import the KML file into google earth I see lines all over the globe.

I then try adding the OpenLayers Google Maps satellite raster and it complains that "Error: latitude or longitude exceeded limits". I assume this is because google maps rasters want to be in EPSG:3857. So I change the CRS of the project to EPSG:3857, select on-the-fly CRS transformation and add the OpenLayers map source. The map source loads fine, but now I can't see the original DLS data I loaded before (sec_line_line.shp)

I don't understand why this is, or what I can do to fix the issue.

I'm using QGIS 2.18 on Ubuntu 16.4 (Ubuntu 14.4 also does the same thing)