The ongoing Moose Feud between Moose Jaw and Stor-Evdal has reached new heights, as Deputy Mayor of the small Norwegian city – Linda Otnes-Henriksen – has made her way to the Friendly City.

Arriving Friday night, Otnes-Henriksen says her reception in Moose Jaw has been great so far.

"It's been crazy and I'm honoured. I didn't expect this coming here. I talked with Jacki [L'Heureux-Mason] and Mayor Tolmie before I got here and they warned me a little bit about how people feel about me here and I was not sure I believed it. But getting here I can see that they were right and this has been so much fun, just perfect."

What started out as a tongue-in-cheek dispute quickly reached the international stage, with organizations like the BBC and New York Times even picking up the story. Otnes-Henriksen says, and Mayor Tolmie agrees, that the feud has really helped boost the exposure of both communities.

"Even for Norway not everyone knows where Stor-Evdal is, but this has really placed us up there. We really got on board with it and played along, I think we made this really humorous, funny, a little bit serious at the beginning of the whole Moose War. It just turned out to be such a good story."

The Deputy Mayor will be touring the Friendly City with Tourism Moose Jaw Executive Director Jacki L'Heureux-Mason on Monday, and she will even have the opportunity to fly at 15 Wing on Tuesday.

"We're going to do a school visit today and also tomorrow another school visit and to 15 Wing. I think they're thinking about putting me up there in the sky so we will see. I've never done anything like that before, so that should be really fun."

Mac the Moose was built in 1984 and stands at 9.8 metres tall. Stor-Evdal's moose, on the other hand, was built and first revealed in 2015 standing at 10.3 metres high - 20 inches taller than Mac.